Social Security Disability for Kidney Failure

Social Security Disability for Kidney Failure

Yes, you can get Social Security Disability (SSDI or SSI) benefits if you’ve been diagnosed with kidney failure. 

My name is Kaitlin Wildoner and I’m an attorney who helps disabled clients obtain their disability benefits as quickly as possible so they can focus on getting better. 

In this video, we talk about how to get Social Security disability benefits if you’ve been diagnosed with kidney failure. If you look at the Blue Book of Listings, the entire chapter six covers kidney disease: with transplant, without transplant, and they even consider complications from chronic kidney disease. 

For example, if you have chronic kidney disease and you’re undergoing chronic hemodialysis, you might meet listing 6.03. If you have chronic kidney disease and received a kidney transplant, you may be considered disabled for one year from the date of the transplant under listing 6.04. After that year, Social Security will then consider your residual impairments for ongoing disability. There are also listings for chronic kidney disease without chronic hemodialysis or kidney transplant and for those who have significant complications of chronic kidney disease, requiring at least three hospitalizations within a consecutive 12-month period. Each of the hospitalizations must be 30 days apart and they must have lasted at least 48 hours. That 48 hour period does include any emergency department time immediately before the admission. 

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