Hearing & Review

Your Best Opportunity: Administrative Hearing and Appeals Council Review

If your initial application for Social Security Disability or Supplemental Security Income benefits is denied – and most applications are denied – here are the next steps available to you. You must take action to request them, and you must prepare for them.

Administrative Hearing: When your initial application is denied, you have 60 days to ask for an administrative hearing.

• An Administrative Law Judge will consider medical evidence from your doctors and testimony offered by you.
• The judge bases his decision on the evidence before him, ignoring previous denials and the reasons for them.
• The hearing is informal and represents the best opportunity to have your application approved at the administrative level.

Appeals Council Review: If your appeal at your hearing is unsuccessful, you have 60 days to ask for an Appeals Council Review.

• You can send in written argument that we help you prepare.
• You may supply new evidence to be considered.
• The Social Security Administration Appeals Council will review your file and documentation you submitted.

How We Can Help You

The Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income attorneys at Clark, James, Hanlin, and Hunt will prepare all documents and paperwork, identifying reasons why Social Security should reconsider their decision to deny you benefits.

Call to Set Up Your Free Consultation Today

Don’t take these crucial steps unprepared. Contact us to help you prepare for the hearing or review that could bring you the Social Security Disability or Supplemental Security Income benefits that you need.

The law firm of Clark, James, Hanlin, and Hunt, located in Birmingham, Alabama, represents clients throughout Montgomery, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Hoover, Bessemer, Gadsden, Cullman, Jasper, Anniston, Pell City, Decatur, Selma, Florence, Scottsboro and Fort Payne.