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Disorders That Qualify for SSI Disability Benefits

SSI / DIB / SSD / RSDI Qualifying Disabilities and Disorders

Oregon SSI Attorney • Social Security Disability Benefits Lawyer

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is a complex framework of departments and decision makers who may seem intent on denying people benefits they are entitle to. The truth is that SSA has a very specific list of qualifying disabilities and disorders. I am attorney Richard Sly. I have been practicing Social Security claims law for over thirty years.

I receive many calls from people wondering whether their disability or disorder will qualify for benefits. It is often difficult to determine exactly what the SSA will decide about your initial claim, but this is a list of the impairments or disabilities currently recognized for benefits. Contact Oregon SSI attorney's offices of The Law Offices of Richard A. Sly to schedule an opportunity to meet with me about your claim.

Social Security Disability benefits are designed to assist people who are or have become significantly impaired to the extent that they cannot earn a living.

Examples of physical and psychological medical conditions proven to be disabling:

  • Arthritis
  • Back, Neck, Hip, Knee injury conditions
  • Various Musculoskeletal Disorders
  • Musculoskeletal disorders
  • Degenerative disk disease
  • Cancer, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Leukemia
  • Cardiovascular, heart disease
  • Stroke, CVA
  • Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
  • Fibromyalgia, and other Chronic Pain Disorders
  • Brain injury, head trauma
  • Schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder
  • Bipolar disorder (manic-depressive)
  • Depression
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), including Battered Wife Syndrome
  • ADHD / ADD
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Diabetes & associated neuropathies
  • Epilepsy, seizure disorder
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Hepatitis C
  • HIV / AIDS

I am happy to meet with you and answer all your questions at no charge. Contact me, Oregon SSI attorney Richard A. Sly, to schedule a free consultation today.

Office Location

Richard A. Sly
1001 S.W. Fifth Avenue, Suite 310
Portland, OR 97204

Phone: 503-224-0436
Fax: 503-226-1227

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The Social Security law firm of Richard A. Sly, Attorney at Law provides legal services to the Oregon and Washington cities of Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Gresham, Clackamas, Wilsonville, Tigard, Salem, Eugene, Forest Grove, Vancouver, Camas, Kelso, Longview, Hood River, Stevenson, The Dalles and Washougal, and the Oregon and Washington counties of Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, Yamhill, Clark, Skamania and Klickitat; the Portland Metro and Southwest Washington geographical area.