What is the success rate of Disabled Veterans getting Social Security Disability approval

0:01 Hello, everyone, This is Attorney Anthony Reeves again and I'm here to give you your legal beat tip of the day. Let's talk about the VA and Social Security. Now. One of the things that I've told people on a regular basis is that Social Security is not bound by disability determinations by other agencies.

0:21 In other words, just because somebody else finds you disabled does not necessarily mean that Social Security is gonna find you disabled. However, every now and then I'll get a question like I got a comment from a gentleman or a gentleman I'm not sure who, basically asked me, what is the success rate if you are found disabled by the VA as opposed to Social Security? Meaning if you got if you're found disabled by the VA, what's the likelihood that you're gonna be found disabled by Social Security? Great question, not straightforward answer though. Here's what I mean by this. The VA makes their disability determinations much differently from Security. Let me tell you why. I say that.

1:02 With the VA, typically they're dealing with basic going on disability ratings, and they're looking at also different things when they're determining whether or not you're disabled. Remember that sometimes with the VA, you may be found disabled from an incremental standpoint, meaning you may be found ten percent disabled or twenty percent disabled, or service ten or thirty percent service connected disability. That is totally different from Social Security, because for Social Security, their standard is can you work?

1:30 Does your condition keep you from being able to do work? Just because the VA has found you disabled within the content text of their guidelines, does it increase the likelihood that you're going to be found disabled by Social Security? Now? Remember when I first started and I said, a disability determination by another agency is not binding on Social Security, but it is persuasive. Well, here's what I mean by this. The question really shouldn't be whether or not if the VA finds me disabled, does that mean it's a greater likelihod I'm gonna give Social Security? The question is how much of that rating is probably gonna be more persuasive to them? What does that mean by this? Well, let's pause for a second. If you got a ten percent service connected

2:16 disability rating by the VA, that means they found you disabled for just ten percent. Have you been found disabled by the VA? Yes, but it's only ten percent, So how persuasive do you really think that's gonna be on Social Security maybe not that persuasive because if they let's say that the only reason why they gave you ten percent is because you had an ankle injury from back in the day. Well, that's great for the VA, but remember Social Security wants to know can you work? Can you still sit? Can you still concentrate? Do you need to take can you take regular breaks without having a need extra break? If you can do all those things, the fact that you have a ten percent service connected disability from the VA means Nathan nothing.

2:57 Instead of keeping that in mind, they'll take it, but it won't be as persuasive. Let's move it up a little bit. Let's go to the other extreme. What if you have one hundred percent service connect the disability benefit? Is that gonna help you probably a lot more, because when you're talking one hundred percent, typically you're talking about a larger amount of problems that you're having that probably tiptoes into the area of impeding your ability to even do work. Now here's where it gets tricky because people will start to ask me, well, what about the range in the middle. It just depends on the evidence that you have in the VA. Remember, social Security doesn't follow the VA disability rating the same way the VA does, just like the VA

3:39 doesn't do the same thing with sobal security. Now keep in mind this is where it's kind of really weird. Do they help each other? Absolutely, if you got a disability rating with the VA, is it gonna be persuasive and helpful to your case. Absolutely, Just like if you were applying for VA benefits and you were found disabled for Social Security, it bit tied.

3:59 If it plays play an interplay with your VA condition, it will help it as well. So they both kind of work with each other in terms of helping each other, but they're too separate and apart from each other. What I want you to recognize is one clear point, whether it's VA workers, come state disability, long term, short term, or whatever. Don't get it in your mind that just because some other agency found that you were disabled, that you have a greater chance of getting with Social Security because they're not bound by any of that. Is it going to help your case? Absolutely, But is it going to make your case of slammed? Ump. Do not go to sleep at night thinking it will, because you'll find yourself aggravated

4:40 and upset. Just continue to do the things that I've always recommended keep going to the doctor. And one of the nicest thing is if you're going to the VA, they do such a great job of documenting everything. They'll tell the Social Security what they found was the disability rating. So if they said you've got a fifty percent VA disability rating on your back, you've probably gone to therapists, you've probably gone to specialists, You've probably done all the things that the average person who doesn't have access to the VA is able to do.

5:10 So that should really be your biggest focus and your biggest benefit. So for those of you out there who find yourself wondering if I get disability from the VA, will that automatically mean I'm gonna have a greater opportunity, I'm gonna tell you it depends. Does it help, Yes, But don't rely solely on that because the two programs operate differently in terms of what their standard is for disability. Hope that helps you out. If you have any other questions, you know where to catch me up Legal beatdon Anthony Reeves dot com.

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