If you are denied for Social Security disability, it is important to file an appeal--and do it within the allowed time limit of 60 days. Here are other things you should do in your appeal: 1. File a written appeal using the proper forms--available from your Social Security office. Phone calls are NOT appeals. 2. Update all your medical information. Provide names/address/phone for all doctors, clinics, psychologists, hospitals or other medical providers. 3. Complete the form "Disability Report - Appeal." This can be online (www.socialsecrity.gov) or on paper. 4. Explain all your functional limitations and symptoms on the Disability Report. What keeps you from working: pain, fatigue, inability to sit, stand, walk? Be as specific as possible. For example: "After I sit for 30 minutes my legs go numb." 4. Try to get your doctor to complete a form called "Residual Function Capacity (RFC) and provide it to Social Security. 5. R...
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