For people with long term medical conditions that are expected to keep them from working for more than a year, Social Security will sometimes pay disability benefits. In this episode of Workers Comp Matters, host Alan Pierce talks to Janice Skillings-Goff about social security disability claims including who’s qualified to make these claims, eligibility requirements, and what to do if a social security claim is denied. They also discuss the role of an attorney in challenging a denial and how an average hearing is conducted.

Janice Skillings-Goff is a workers compensation attorney at Alan S. Pierce & Associates in Salem, Massachusetts.

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