What does it cost to hire a Social Security disability lawyer? If you call most #SSDIlawyers they will respond that their fee is 25% of your past due benefits with a cap of $6,000. But is this the only way to pay for a lawyer?

Any fee that your lawyer wants to charge must be approved by the Social Security Administration. As I discuss in this video, there are two options that you and your lawyer can use. The first is called a fee agreement, whereby your lawyer is paid 25% with a cap of $6,000. This fee cap, by the way, has not been changed in over 10 years.

The second method to pay your lawyer requires your lawyer to file a fee petition. In a fee petition case, your lawyer is not limited to 25% or $6,000. In a complicated case, your lawyer can apply for a fee of $10,000, $15,000 or more. If the lawyer can document time expended for a large fee then SSA most likely will approve it.

While lawyers use fee petitions in some cases, most #disabilitylawyers choose the fee agreement route. SSA is notorious for its slow processing of fee petitions. Judges are very busy and reviewing and processing fee petitions is not a priority. It can take two, three, four or more years for SSA to process a fee petition. Many lawyers, including me, are very reluctant to accept a case where a fee petition will be necessary.

The unpleasant fee petition process is also why you should hesitate to change lawyers in the middle of your case. If lawyer #1 will not withdraw and waive fees, SSA will not approve lawyer #2's fee agreement and both lawyer #1 and lawyer #2 will have to file fee agreements. You, the claimant, may end up paying two lawyers far more than 25% of your past due benefits.

Good lawyers aim to provide value to their clients - value means knowing how to prepare your case, making sure that the record is complete, preparing a persuasive opening statement, calling witnesses if appropriate, preparing questions for your direct examination, developing a theory of disability to present to the judge and responding to the unexpected.

If you are unclear about how your lawyer will be paid, you should ask - your lawyer should be transparent and open about how he or she gets paid. #socialsecuritydisability #socialsecuritydisabilitylawyer #costofdisabilitylawyer

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