{"id":181,"date":"2016-03-11T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T13:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2016-03-11T13:24:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T13:24:38","slug":"should-i-get-a-social-security-disability-attorney-for-my-initial-application-and-first-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/should-i-get-a-social-security-disability-attorney-for-my-initial-application-and-first-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I get a Social Security disability attorney for my initial application and first appeal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/logo-300x66.jpg\" alt=\"logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"66\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/logo-300x66.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/logo.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Should I get a Social Security disability attorney for my initial application and first appeal?<\/p>\n<p> While you can file the initial application and the initial appeal on your own, I would highly recommend that you obtain experienced attorney help, from an  attorney that specializes in Social Security cases.  I say this because the initial application asks you many questions that can be used against you at a later time.  How you answer the questions on the initial application can have a major impact on if you&#8217;re case is denied initially and\/or denied if you how youon appeal.   Again I would suggest that you hire counsel to advise you for the entire process of applying for Social Security disability <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should I get a Social Security disability attorney for my initial application and first appeal? While you can file the initial application and the initial appeal on your own, I would highly recommend that you obtain experienced attorney help, from an attorney that specializes in Social Security cases. I say this because the initial application&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[22,24,7,23,25],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michigan-social-security-disability-attorney","category-social-security","tag-macomb-county","tag-oakland-county","tag-social-security-disability-attorney-michigan","tag-st-clair-county","tag-wayne-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigan-workers-comp-attorney.com\/michigan-attorney-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}