Disability benefits when arthritis ends your working life.
Inflammatory arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and severe osteoarthritis can make sustained work impossible — gripping, standing, walking, typing. We turn what your joints can no longer do into the functional evidence the SSA requires. No fee unless we win.
How the SSA evaluates arthritis claims
Inflammatory arthritis — including rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis — is evaluated under SSA Listing 14.09, which looks at persistent inflammation or deformity in major joints, the inability to ambulate or perform fine and gross movements effectively, and severe systemic involvement. Osteoarthritis is typically evaluated under the musculoskeletal listings based on the joints involved.
Most arthritis claims are not won on the diagnosis — nearly everyone over 50 has some arthritis on an X-ray. They are won on function: how long you can stand, what you can grip, how often flares put you down, and what your treating rheumatologist documents about your limitations. That is the record we build.
What the SSA looks for
SSA evaluates the functional impact of your condition — how it limits your ability to sustain full-time work — not the diagnosis alone.
Arthritis-related limitations SSA evaluates.
These are the functional limitations that most often determine whether a arthritis claim is approved.
Joint function
Persistent swelling, deformity, or pain in weight-bearing or hand joints that prevents effective walking or fine movements.
Flares and systemic effects
Documented flare frequency, fatigue, fever, or weight loss showing the disease process beyond a single joint.
Treatment response
What your records show after methotrexate, biologics, injections, or replacement surgery — and what still doesn’t work.
Winning disability for arthritis: what we do.
Disability law is all we do. Here’s how we build a arthritis claim that wins.
Build the record
We gather rheumatology records, imaging, and lab work (RF, anti-CCP, inflammatory markers) into one coherent medical file.
Functional opinion
We obtain a functional capacity opinion from your treating physician that speaks the SSA’s language: sit/stand limits, handling and fingering restrictions, expected absences.
Hearing-ready
We prepare you for the exact questions the judge will ask about flares, medication side effects, and a typical bad day.
Arthritis SSDI questions.
Is arthritis a disability?
Can I get disability for rheumatoid arthritis?
Can I get disability for osteoarthritis?
What if I can still do some things on good days?
What does it cost to hire you?
Arthritis keeping you from working? Let’s review.
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