Dire Need Social Security Disability Cases in Michigan

Of course, everyone who qualifies for Social Security Disability benefits is experiencing financial stress. They’re all unable to work and anxiously watching the bills pile up.

Social Security is only going to speed up a case for dire economic need when it’s an urgent emergency.

These are the conditions Social Security recognizes for a dire need SSDI request during your disability appeal:

• You’ve reached the point where you can’t get food.
• You can’t pay for or get medical care for your health conditions, including vitally important prescription medications.
• You don’t have safe shelter—because your home is uninhabitable due to utility shutoffs, or you’re facing homelessness.

Social Security will look at whether you’re facing eviction from your home, or foreclosure.

Some people may have savings they can live on while they wait for their disability hearings. Some have a spouse who works and brings in income.

But if your medical impairments have forced you to lose your income, you’ve been denied disability benefits, you have no other resources, and you’re at risk of outright homelessness, you could get Social Security hardship help.

Talk to the disability attorneys at Levine Benjamin. We won’t charge you anything for a conversation about how you can ask for Social Security dire need payment.

We want to help you.

It’s time to explain your difficult, urgent situation, so you can get a dire need Social Security decision to speed up your disability benefits appeal—and get closer to winning lifesaving benefits.

Here are tips from our disability lawyers on what to put in the dire need letter you need to send to Social Security:

• Describe your struggles in full detail. Don’t hold back on your financial problems. You need your letter to get the attention of Social Security officials.
• Make sure it’s in your own words. You can get help from others as you write it, but you want your letter to be from your heart.
• Give a specific picture of your dire financial situation. This includes exact amounts that you’re behind on bills and descriptions of how crucial services, like medical treatment, have turned you away.
• Send backup documents. Such as copies of overdue bills, electric, gas or water shutoffs, car repossessions, eviction notices, foreclosure notices and bank account statements.

A Social Security Disability lawyer from Levine Benjamin can give you guidance to help you do this letter—and guidance with the whole Social Security Disability process.

You may still have to wait some amount of time to get a decision on disability benefits even if your request to speed up your case is accepted, but a dire need Social Security decision can cut time off your wait—and every day counts.

More than anything, our disability lawyers want to see you reach a better, more stable, more peaceful place, where you don’t have to worry about money for basic survival, because you’re getting assistance from Social Security Disability.

Please reach out to us.