What does it mean that I meet the medical requirements but not the non medical requirements (Legacy Q&A Episode)

0:22 I got a letter saying that I met the medical requirements, but now don't meet the non medical. What is up with that? All? Right? Most people fail to realize that when you're applying for Social Security, whether it be s aside, dB, disabled widows Children's benefits based on disability, excuse me, there are two things they have to look at, medical and non medical. Typically they do the non medical early on, just to make sure you meet the basic requirements. But sometimes sometimes you meet the non medical at one point, but then later on you don't meet them. Now, I know this may sound kind of weird, but follow me on this one zoom. For instance, that you apply for Social Security disability benefits and you say you became disabled

1:07 January of twenty twelve. Your insurance coverage expires December twenty and thirteen, so you apply in June twenty thirteen. So you go along your Merria way, Merry way. Now we're in twenty fourteen. A court finds you disabled, but as of twenty fourteen. Guess what, you're disabled for the medical standpoint for Social Security, But because your insurance coverage only takes you to twenty thirteen, and your disability didn't begin until twenty fourteen, you don't get to disability benefits, so you don't meet the non medical portion. I know that gets straight confusing. What I typically tell people that if you ever get one of those letters, social Security will literally and this is the thing that turns me out

1:49 when people say, what's up with that? I said? Social Security will typically tell you specifically why you meet that met the non medical requirement. And it's important because if it's something that you can fix, they'll give you the opportunity to fix it. So before you start blowing up an attorney's phone, call the phone phone because you're mad because of the way something broke down, take the opportunity read why they're saying you don't meet the non medical portion.

2:19 So this way you at least know when you're going to speak to someone, what exactly they're saying is the reason or justification for why they may have gotten it wrong.