Liver Disorders Disability Benefits

It’s hard to be approved for Social Security disability benefits based on liver problems. It seems like they don’t want to approve until the person with liver disease is in terminal decline. However, patients can have a lot of symptoms and limitations long without being in the end phase of liver disease.

Some of the problems getting approval for liver disease have to do with the fact that some liver disease is related to alcoholism. However, there are plenty of liver disease patients who have never drunk. Even for those who have had drinking problems, the question isn’t whether you got to the point that liver disease is disabling you because of your drinking. The question is whether the symptoms of liver disease could be reduced or eliminated by stopping drinking. By the time liver disease has become disabling, many people with alcoholic liver disease will have already stopped drinking. Even if they are still drinking, the drinking may be hastening their demise but stopping it won’t make the problem go away.

In the end, don’t worry about the stigma that can be associated with liver disease. If you’re disabled by liver disease, file a claim for Social Security disability claim.