Case Strategy for Disability
Claims Based on Heart Disease

What really matters when filing your Social Security case based on heart disease is the manner in which your medical condition impacts your work capacity. For instance, a weak heart may cause fatigue, or a lack of stamina, and your medicine could also cause side effects, such as drowsiness or nausea. Heart palpitations could distract you and make it hard to concentrate because you are worried or anxious.

Any of these issues or others could interfere with a person’s attempt to complete his job. If you have some heart problems, then you cannot do certain strenuous activities. In certain cases, the client’s activity would be so limited that he or she would be unable to lift more than 5 lbs. or walk for more than five minutes at a time. Drowsiness caused by certain medicines makes operating heavy machinery, or even driving a car, dangerous. Difficulty in concentrating as a result of heart palpitations and the anxiety they cause would eliminate many other jobs.

When filing for Social Security disability benefits, you need to consider what problems would result from your particular disability and how these problems would prevent you from being able to carry out any kind of work, even unskilled labor.

If you are looking to win your heart disease disability case, there are three different methods you can try. The first way is to fall under the requirements specified by the Social Security Administration cardiovascular disease listing 4.0. These tests focus on medical diagnostics and cardiovascular function testing. You can prove that that your functional work capacity has been reduced by health problems such as fatigue or shortness of breath. If you are over fifty years old, worked in unskilled labor, and have had a limited education than you may qualify for what are known as the Social Security’s “grid” rules, offering certain benefits.

Judges also look for other factors when they are deciding disability cases. Some of those factors include: a longstanding work history, evidence given by doctors on the problems with your heart, proof of repeated visitations to physicians and failed treatment attempts. Adding your name to a transplant list is also considered.