If you have been diagnosed with lupus and your symptoms are so severe, you are unable to work, you may qualify for SSDI benefits.
Can I Get SSDI for Lupus?
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can cause increasing damage to your body over time. While your symptoms may be manageable after an initial diagnosis, they can sometimes worsen over time and cause you severe impairments. You may be able to work after you are first diagnosed. You may find that as the days and months pass, you are not able to maintain your work.
If you have lupus, you may have varying levels of severity when it comes to damage done to your joints, heart, blood, lungs, skin, and kidneys. Lupus often causes severe and frequent exhaustion, fever, low physical capacity, mental fogginess, involuntary weight loss, and severe joint aches.
Social Security Lupus Listing
Social Security has a special “blue book” listing for claimants applying for benefits due to a lupus diagnosis. To meet the listing, you must have a lupus diagnosis and one of the following:
A. Involvement of two or more organs/body systems with at least one of the organs/body systems involved to at least a moderate level of severity and at least two of the constitutional symptoms or signs of lupus (i.e., fatigue, fever, weight loss).
B. Repeated manifestations of lupus, with at least two of the constitutional symptoms or signs and any one of the following limitations at the marked level:
- Activities of daily living
- Maintaining social functioning
- Completing tasks due to a hard time with concentration, persistence, or pace.
Need Help?
If you have been diagnosed with lupus and need help applying for SSDI benefits, contact a local attorney today. We can help gather the supporting evidence and show the severity of your condition, using words that Social Security understands.