What medical conditions qualify for Social Security Disability benefits?

You know the saying, “Different strokes for different folks”? This basically means that each person has their own, unique, way of doing things throughout life and it may not be the same way as you or your neighbor.
Social Security Disability Insurance can help to guide those who do things a little differently. It allows the opportunity for people with qualifying disabilities to sustain a relatively normal lifestyle with an income.

Social Security Disability benefits are a huge help to those who need it. However, not everyone can qualify for this privilege. The rules are that the disability at hand must:

• Prevent said person from engaging in substantial gainful activities
• Must last at least a year OR result in death

Here are a few different disabilities that will qualify for SSDI:

Physical Impairments

Things that make it hard for the person to function easily on a day-to-day basis, whether it be from being in pain or simply being unable to perform tasks, is one of the ways you can qualify for SSDI.

These things may be linked to skeletal or muscular issues like musculoskeletal issues, burns or digestive system impairments.

These things can make doing day-to-day tasks like sitting at a desk or walking around a facility nearly impossible, so SSDI is there to allow the person to still get money and live their life while tending to their needs.

Cardiovascular Disorders

The heart is linked to everything in the body. It is the thing that keeps us alive. If there is a problem with it, it needs to be taken care of.

This may mean that you don’t work or work less. This also means that you qualify for SSDI.

Heart disease, heart failure, high blood pressure and other correlating issues are linked to cardiovascular health, so it is important to be properly taken care of.

Special Senses and Speech

These disorders may qualify for SSDI, but where some disorders don’t allow the person to work at all, for those with these disorders, they may be allowed to work a little bit.

This category has to do with sight disorders like blindness as well as speech disorders where you are unable to speak, stutter, speech impairments and more.

This can mean multiple things, such as these people may need more time to learn and pick up tasks or have guidance throughout the whole process, but they are still able to work.

However, there are those who are unable to work at all. This will be something that is discussed when working to get SSDI.

Cancer

Cancer is something that everyone takes very seriously and can often end in death. This means that those who have cancer and apply to SSDI will qualify.

This allows the person to potentially keep working, just on a lighter load, or it allows them to not work so they can do everything they need to do like go to their appointments, work on feeling better as well as not have the stress, on top of their sickness, to come into work every single day from nine to five.

As we can see, each of these disabilities have quite a range from sicknesses, to the way people are born.

If you feel that you may qualify for SSDI, reach out for support that you want and need. SSDI is there to help those who need it and want it.