Clients Success Stories:
Disability Benefits for Immune System Disorders (+ Autoimmune)
Plus additional resources on getting disability benefits for Immune System Disorders (+ Autoimmune)
Laura was certain she’d win her disability case as her doctors said she couldn’t work. After being denied, she hired Balin Law and won. Read her story.
Balin Law won Kathleen’s case the first time around. Kathleen suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, spinal stenosis and depression. Read Kathleen’s story.
Tanya had multiple back surgeries, rheumatoid arthritis and vision impairment due to her medications. She knew she needed help, so she contacted Balin Law. Read Tanya’s story.
Alan suffers from arthritis and an aching back. His wife, Lynn, had a good experience working with Balin Law to get the disability benefits she needed, so he called Balin Law to help him. Read Alan’s story.
Lynn was diagnosed with a rare disease known as Churg-Strauss Syndrome. Unable to work like she once could, Lynn was advised to call a disability attorney. Read about Lynn’s experience filing for Disability Benefits with Churg-Strauss Symdrome.
Dana suffers from sciatica, diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, hypothyroidism, thyroid cancer, anemia, arthritis, and degenerative bone disease.
What Social Security lists for Immune System Disorders (+ Autoimmune)
Immune System Disorders that may qualify for disability benefits are evaluated under Section 14.00 of Social Security’s Listing of Impairments – Adult Listings.
SSA organizes Immune System Disorders into 3 categories: Autoimmune disorders; Immune deficiency disorders, and HIV infection.
Disorders evaluated for disability benefits under this section include:
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (Lupus)
- Systemic vasculitis
- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- CREST syndrome (calcinosis, Raynaud’s phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia)
- Diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis
- Diffuse scleroderma
- Localized scleroderma (linear scleroderma and morphea)
- Disseminated morphea
- Shulman’s disease (diffuse fasciitis with eosinophilia)
- Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome
- Polymyositis
- Dermatomyositis
- Inflammatory arthritis associated with:
- Reiter’s syndrome
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Whipple’s disease
- Behçet’s disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sjögren’s syndrome
- Crystal deposition disorders (gout and pseudogout)
- Lyme disease
- Primary Immune deficiency disorders (congenital) such as:
- X-linked agammaglobulinemia
- thymic hypoplasia (DiGeorge syndrome)
- severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
- chronic granulomatous disease (CGD)
- C1 esterase inhibitor deficiency
- Medication-induced immune suppression
- HIV infection, including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and disorders associated with HIV infection:
- Multicentric Castleman disease (MCD)
- Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL)
- Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL)
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
- Pulmonary Kaposi sarcoma (KS)