Your Past Wages: Just before the hearing, the judge will order a wage query that explains all of your past earnings--from the time of your first job--right up until the day you quit work. If you worked a part-time job after you applied for disability, this will also show up.
The Kind of Work You Did in the Past: The judge will be able to see each of your past jobs, the employer's names, addresses, and a detail of your wages.
Unemployment Benefits: A check will be made with the state to see whether you received unemployment benefits, and if so--when, how long and how much.
Other Income: If you received pay for sick leave or vacation time or cashed out a 401K, it will show up on your earnings history and must be explained.
Each of Your Medical Records: Medical records show more than you may think. In addition to your medical complaints, treatment and symptoms, your doctors' records may show such things as:
- Whether you smoke and how much
- Where you work
- Whether you drink and how much
- Trips or vacations you have taken
- Whether you gamble or not
- Your height and weight
- Any illicit or illegal drug or alcohol abuse
- Over use or abuse of prescription medications
- Failure to comply with treatment
- Personal or family problems you mentioned to your doctor
- Whether you have a valid driver's license
- Sick leave days or personal leave you have taken
- Who you live with
- Anything else your doctor knows about you
With this wealth of information, Social Security judges know a great deal about you before your hearing begins. Therefore, it is foolhardy to misrepresent anything.
Keep in mind: Your doctor may put anything you tell him/her in your medical chart. It becomes part of your medical record. For example, you say to your doctor: "My back hurts because I helped a friend put a new roof on his barn last week." You wouldn't think that becomes part of the medical record, but it may.
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