Make sure your key player, your physician, is caring, careful and understanding. He should specify your pain, and list those things that make it worse. A complete report, if supported by a good medical record, need only be two to three pages long. We have to educate ourselves and others. This includes writing congressmen, etc.
Disability benefits are payable as of one year before application.
Supplemental Security Income is payable from the application date. Web page design by Bill Jackson, 1996.