Wednesday, November 8, 2017

PTSD and Social Security Disability

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SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY, A VETERAN AND PTSD

Often a vet will have a traumatic experience while in service to the USA. If this is chronic, it can result in a finding of post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD). In the old days this was called battle fatigue or shell shock. If there is a finding by the Veterans Administration (VA) that a vet has PTSD and that the diagnosis makes the vet unemployable, the vet can use this finding of unemployability by the VA in applying for Social Security Disability.

The VA PTSD finding by the VA is not binding on the Social Security Administration. However, the VA PTSD finding will be considered in a Social Security Hearing.