This comprehensive and compassionate book covers both SSDI and SSI, shows you how to prove a disability, and explains how your age, education, and work experience affect your chances. Parents will find special information about benefits available to children with a disability.

Learn how to:

- find the disability criteria for your medical condition

- prove the severity of your disability

- appeal if you're denied benefits

- work part time while keeping your benefits

- prepare for a Continuing Disability Review

- and more.

Plus, this book is packed with filled-in samples of all the forms you'll need, including the SSDI and SSI disability applications.

This new edition includes:

- a new discussion of getting disability for long COVID

- explanations of Social Security's updated medical listings for digestive and skin disorders.