Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro, NC Social Security Disability Lawyers for SSDI and SSI Claims
Social Security's office locator assigns Greensboro ZIP codes, and those for High Point, Jamestown, Burlington, Graham and Elon, to one field office: Greensboro, at 6005 Landmark Center Blvd. That field office is on the Greensboro hearing office's list, so a hearing request from those ZIP codes generally goes to the hearing office downtown at Suite 300, 101 South Edgeworth Street. The same list names Reidsville, Asheboro, Winston-Salem, Mount Airy and Wilkesboro, and it still names Burlington and High Point, which the office locator does not show.
Downard & Associates represents adults in Greensboro, the Triad and the rest of North Carolina in Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) claims, starting with the application and continuing through reconsideration, the hearing and Appeals Council review. Clients work with us by phone or video from our office in Lebanon, Tennessee, and there is no fee unless you win.
How we help
What Our Greensboro Disability Attorneys Handle
SSI is needs-based and turns on income and countable resources.
An SSDI claim usually rests on your own work record and Social Security earnings, though some adults qualify for disability benefits on a parent's or a deceased spouse's record instead. SSI is needs-based and turns on income and countable resources. For adults, SSDI and SSI use the same definition of disability, and Social Security's regulations and appeal deadlines are federal, so they are the same in Guilford County as in any other county. Our North Carolina disability lawyer page covers the state's other hearing offices.
We do not have a Greensboro office. Consultations take place by phone or video, and our attorneys handle hearings from Tennessee by phone or video. Our clients are adults, 18 and older. We take SSDI cases for people who receive VA benefits but do not handle VA claims or VA appeals, and we do not take continuing disability review or cessation cases or cases about back pay alone. Federal court appeals go to affiliated counsel.
Hearing office
The Greensboro Hearing Office List and the Two Offices the Locator Does Not Show
The data behind Social Security's hearing office locator gives the Greensboro hearing office's address as Suite 300, 101 South Edgeworth Street, Greensboro, NC 27401, and lists eight North Carolina field offices: Greensboro, Reidsville, Wilkesboro, Asheboro, Burlington, High Point, Mt. Airy and Winston Salem. The office locator itself lists no Burlington or High Point field office, and it assigns the High Point and Burlington ZIP codes in the sample below to the Greensboro field office.
Several neighboring towns sit on other lists. The locator assigns Mebane (27302) to the Durham field office, which is on the Raleigh hearing office's list and covered on our Raleigh disability lawyer page, and Siler City (27344) to the Sanford field office, on the Fayetteville list. Lexington (27292 and 27295) and Mocksville (27028) go to the Salisbury field office and Statesville to its own office, and both of those are on the Charlotte list, which our Charlotte disability lawyer page covers.
Social Security's operations manual says hearing office jurisdiction is determined by the claimant's residence address, though you can ask, in a signed statement giving your reasons, to have a case transferred, and Social Security decides whether to do it. Social Security's hearings manual also lets it reassign some cases to another hearing office to relieve a temporary workload imbalance or increase productivity, only when the other office can hear and decide them more quickly. Social Security generally does not reassign a case this way when you have properly objected in writing to both a phone hearing and an agency video hearing, have not agreed to online video, and have not changed your residence. After a move, it generally still honors that objection when deciding whether to reassign the case for workload reasons, if doing so causes no added delay and nothing else calls for scheduling you another way. That practice is separate from the hearing-format rule, under which Social Security decides how you appear after a move. When Social Security moves a case to another hearing office for workload or productivity reasons, the office that receives it notifies you and your representative. Our hearing office directory lists every office with its field offices. For an in-person or agency video hearing, the Notice of Hearing names the place, so go by that notice for your own case.
Guilford and alamance counties
Greensboro, High Point and Burlington ZIP Codes Assigned to the Landmark Center Office
Mebane, at the eastern end of Alamance County, is assigned to the Durham field office instead.
The ZIP codes below come from Social Security's office locator, which assigns field offices by ZIP code, not by city limits or county lines, so the town names are only a guide. The list is a sample and the locator can change; your own ZIP code search is what counts.
Greensboro and nearby Guilford County ZIP codes: 27401, 27403, 27405, 27406, 27407, 27408, 27409, 27410 and 27455 (Greensboro); 27214 (Browns Summit); 27301 (McLeansville); 27310 (Oak Ridge); 27313 (Pleasant Garden); 27357 (Stokesdale); and 27358 (Summerfield).
High Point and southwest Guilford: 27260, 27262, 27263 and 27265 (High Point and Archdale); 27282 (Jamestown); 27283 (Julian); and 27360 (Thomasville, in Davidson County).
Alamance County and Gibsonville: 27215 and 27217 (Burlington); 27253 (Graham); 27244 (Elon); 27258 (Haw River); and 27249 (Gibsonville).
All of these are assigned to the Greensboro field office at 6005 Landmark Center Blvd, Greensboro, NC 27407. Mebane, at the eastern end of Alamance County, is assigned to the Durham field office instead.
The rest of the triad
Winston-Salem, Reidsville, Asheboro and the Foothills Offices
The locator assigns Winston-Salem ZIP codes (27101, 27103 through 27107 and 27127), Kernersville (27284), Clemmons (27012), Lewisville (27023), King (27021), Walnut Cove (27052) and Yadkinville (27055) to the Winston-Salem field office at 1370 Lockland Ave, which our Winston-Salem disability lawyer page covers. Reidsville, Eden (27288), Madison (27025), Mayodan (27027) and Yanceyville (27379) go to the Reidsville field office at 2402 Freeway Dr, and Asheboro, Randleman (27317), Ramseur (27316), Seagrove (27341) and Trinity (27370) go to the Asheboro office at Suite K, 157 Dublin Square Rd.
Farther west, Mount Airy (27030) and Pilot Mountain (27041) are assigned to the Mt. Airy field office on N Andy Griffith Pkwy, and Wilkesboro (28697) and North Wilkesboro (28659) to the Wilkesboro office on River St. Every one of these field offices is on the Greensboro list, so a hearing request from those ZIP codes generally goes to the hearing office on South Edgeworth Street.
Local treatment records
Records From Cone Health and the Kernersville VA Health Care Center
Social Security generally asks your medical sources for records itself once you give it permission, under 20 CFR 404.1512(b), so copies you order are for your own file or your representative. Cone Health hospitals and practices: Cone Health's medical records page says MyChart shows key parts of your record. For copies, it asks you to complete its Patient Access Form, which can be mailed to Cone Health, Health Information Management Department, 1200 N. Elm St., Greensboro, NC 27401, faxed to (336) 840-2435, or emailed to him.requests@conehealth.com with your name, date of birth, treatment date and facility. Its phone is (336) 832-8677. The page says there is no charge for records sent to another health care provider, fees may apply to other requests, and it says to allow 10 to 14 business days to receive copies after Cone receives the written request. Records from Cone's behavioral health locations, including the Behavioral Health Hospital, the inpatient behavioral health unit at Alamance Regional and Guilford County Behavioral Health, are requested through that same Health Information Management number.
VA (Kernersville Health Care Center): the Salisbury VA Health Care System's medical records office page says veterans can review, print and download VA records online. It lists a Release of Information office at the Kernersville Health Care Center, Building 3, first floor, 1695 Kernersville Medical Parkway, open the same hours as the facility. A signed VA Form 10-5345a, the form for a copy of your own records, can be mailed to 1601 Brenner Avenue, Salisbury, NC 28144, and the page says a request may take up to 20 business days to process.
Hearings and deadlines
Hearing Format and Appeal Deadlines for a Greensboro Disability Claim
To object in writing to a phone or agency video hearing, after you receive the Notice of Ways to Attend a Hearing
30days
20 CFR 404.936(d), 416.1436(d)
After a hearing request, Social Security sends a Notice of Ways to Attend a Hearing, and its ways to attend page lists four: in person or by agency video at one of its offices, and by phone or online video from a private location you choose. Under 20 CFR 404.936 and, for SSI, 20 CFR 416.1436, an objection to a phone hearing, an agency video hearing, or both must be made in writing within 30 days after you receive that notice. If you do not object, Social Security can schedule a phone or agency video hearing, though it can also schedule you in person or, if you agree, by online video; if you object to only one of those two formats, it can schedule you in person, by the other format, or by online video if you agree, and if you object to both, it generally schedules you in person or, if you agree, by online video. Online video is used only if you agree to it in writing, and a late objection or agreement needs good cause. If you move while the hearing request is pending, Social Security decides how you appear and can schedule a phone or agency video hearing despite an objection, though it considers the move only if you send evidence of your new residence; it can also use a phone hearing in a few other situations the rule lists. Our guide to hearing formats explains each choice and when Social Security moves a case to another office, and our disability hearings page describes the hearing itself.
A reconsideration request is due in writing within 60 days after you receive the initial denial, under 20 CFR 404.909 for SSDI and 20 CFR 416.1409 for SSI, and a hearing request after a reconsideration denial has its own 60 days under 20 CFR 404.933 and 20 CFR 416.1433. Social Security treats a notice as received 5 days after the date on the notice unless you show it came later, under 20 CFR 404.901 and 20 CFR 416.1401. A late request needs a written request for more time and good cause, so call us the week a denial arrives.
Common questions
Greensboro and Triad Disability Claim Questions
I live in High Point. Is there a High Point Social Security office for my claim?
Not in the office locator. It assigns 27260, 27262, 27263 and 27265 to the Greensboro field office at 6005 Landmark Center Blvd and lists no High Point office, although Social Security's hearing office data still names a High Point field office on the Greensboro list. Either way, a hearing request from those ZIP codes generally goes to the Greensboro hearing office.
Is the Greensboro hearing office the same building as the Landmark Center field office?
No. The hearing office data gives the hearing office as Suite 300, 101 South Edgeworth Street, downtown, while the locator puts the field office, which handles applications and other field office business, at 6005 Landmark Center Blvd. If your hearing is in person or by agency video, the Notice of Hearing names the place.
Does a Mebane or Lexington claim go to the Greensboro hearing office?
Generally not. The locator assigns Mebane (27302) to the Durham field office, on the Raleigh hearing office's list, and Lexington (27292 and 27295) to the Salisbury field office, on the Charlotte list. Thomasville (27360), also in Davidson County, is assigned to the Greensboro field office instead.
Do I need to order my Cone Health records for my disability claim?
Social Security generally asks your medical sources for records itself once you give it permission, so you may not need to order them. For your own copies, or to send records to your representative, Cone Health's records page points you to its Patient Access Form, which lets you have records sent to someone else, and says requests can go to Health Information Management by mail, fax or email. It lists no charge for records sent to another health care provider and says fees may apply to other requests, so ask about any charge before you order copies.
Discuss your claim
Start a Greensboro Claim Review by Phone or Video
Phone (615) 255-4307 or use the free review form, and expect a response within 3 business hours. Have any letters from Social Security nearby, with the dates they arrived, and the names of the doctors, clinics and hospitals where you have been treated.