When you file for disability, the agency usually looks at one or two years before your onset date of disability. What that really means is when you tell them the date you became disabled, they’re going to look back one to two years to see what’s been going on with you and then they look at your current medicals as well. And that’s just how they look at these cases because they need to know what’s wrong with you, what you’ve been living with, how it’s affected you, and in general they’re going to look back one to two years for that window of time before you became disabled and then look at the window of time after you became disabled. And hopefully there’s a pretty decent shift in your medical care. But that’s one of the reasons why.
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And sometimes in a rare case we’ve got to show somebody was disabled several years in the past so we get a lot of historical medical records to document that condition in years gone by because that’s part of a burden of proof in a particular type of case. I know that’s a lot to swallow and that’s why if you have those questions about how far back in time do I need my medical proof, that’s when you need to call and reach out to a lawyer because we’ll explain it to you as it pertains to your case. When you’re ready, you call.

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