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Paul McChesney (Admin)

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Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 5:58 am:   
Tom, this is the kind of question that can be answered better on a forum than the usual question, "will I win my case?"

If you do not have transferrable skills, cannot perform your old work, and are limited to sedentary work; that is, a limitation to lifting 10 pounds, and a limitation to standing and walking for about 2 hours during 8, once you become 50 it gets a lot easier to win a disability case.

Of course you must not only be so limited, but also be able to prove it; this is the trouble that most people have, and don't expect. Whatever your doctor says, will the doctor they send you to agree? Will any doctor even mention your problems?

If you can stand and walk all day, the question is more difficult. In that case, you probably, but not certainly, will have to show that you cannot perform fine or gross manipulation with your hands; think of a crossing guard, for example, who only has to do this occasionally.

In general, you have to show that you are limited to jobs that do not exist in "significant numbers." What are a "significant number" of jobs is a very tricky question.

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