After your application is submitted to Social Security, they will send your file to a state disability determination agency. It will be assigned to a disability claims adjudicator. That person will be in touch with you by mail and often by telephone as well. The adjudicator will send you one or more sets of additional forms to complete. Those forms are usually called a Daily Activities Questionnaire or an Adult Function Report. The answers that you give on those additional forms can play a large role in determining whether your claim will be approved or denied. Prepare answers to those forms very carefully. Describe your abilities and activities realistically, not the way you wish they would be or the way they used to be.
We help our clients prepare those state agency forms and review them carefully before they are submitted to the state agency. Your chances of a successful result are greater if you have an attorney review those forms before you submit them to the state agency.
