David A. Morton III - Nolos guide to social security disability: getting & keeping your benefits

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Getting & Keeping Your Benefits

David A. Morton III, M.D.

Names: Morton, David A., 1945- author.

Title: Nolos guide to social security disability : getting & keeping your benefits / David A. Morton III, M.D.

Other titles: Guide to social security disability

Description: 8th edition. | Berkeley, CA : Nolo, 2016. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015036162| ISBN 9781413322231 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781413322248 (epub ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Disability insurance--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Social security--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Classification: LCC HD7105.25.U6 M675 2016 | DDC 368.4/2--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036162

This book covers only United States law, unless it specifically states otherwise.

Copyright 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016 by David A. Morton. All rights reserved. The NOLO trademark is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Printed in the U.S.A.

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Dedication

To my mother, Mary E. Morton, and to my wife, Mary L. Morton.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Nolo founder Ralph Jake Warner for seeing the need for a book on Social Security disability that can be read and used by ordinary people. I would also like to thank former Nolo editors Robin Leonard, Steve Elias, and Spencer Sherman for helping to take difficult and complex areas of law and make them accessible to the general public. Thank you also to Nolo editors Ilona Bray, Cathy Caputo, Janet Portman, and Bethany Laurence.

About the Author

David A. Morton has degrees in psychology (B.A.) and medicine (M.D.). For 14 years, he was a consultant for disability determination to the Social Security Administration in Arkansas. He was chief medical consultant for eight years of that time. In that capacity, he hired, trained, supervised, and evaluated the work of medical doctors and clinical psychologists in determining mental disability claims. He also supervised medical disability determinations of physical disorders and personally made determinations of both physical and mental disorders in adults and children in every specialty of disability medicine. Since 1983, Dr. Morton has authored several books on Social Security disability used by attorneys and federal judges.

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