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Many people have the mistaken idea that employees in the social security office decide whether an applicant for disability benefits is able to work or not, Bruce A. Hundley, social security manager in Culpeper said recently.
This just is not so, Hundley said. People at the social security office do decide if a person meets non-medical requirements, such as whether having worked long enough and recently enough under social security to be eligible for checks.
But the information an applicant provides about his or her medical condition, including names of doctors or hospitals who did examinations or provided treatment, and his or her work experience is sent to the disability determination unit in the Virginia Department of Vocational Rehabilitation.
There, a team of professionals including a doctor, reviews the claim. This team decides if the applicant is disabled within the meaning of the law and whether the person’s condition prevents him or her from working for a year or more.
The team obtains medical
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