What Does Georgia Disability Adjudication Services Do?

When You File for Social Security Disability, This Happens Next

When you apply for Social Security Disability benefits in Georgia, your claim doesn’t go to a central, national processing center. Instead, an evaluator in an office in Georgia examines your paperwork and makes the first determination of whether you are medically eligible to receive disability payments.

In most states, this is a state agency called Disability Determination Services, or DDS. In Georgia it goes by a slightly different name: Disability Adjudication Services, or DAS.

What is DAS?

Disability Adjudication Services is a Georgia state agency that provides the first assessment of Social Security Disability claims. It’s the first stop for your application once you submit it.

DAS is a division of the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA), which provides training, counseling and job placement services for Georgians with disabilities. Though it is run on the state level, its work is entirely paid for by the federal government.

DAS functions similarly to Disability Determination Services (DDS) in other states. A claims examiner there looks at your application and decides whether your medical evidence and ability to work meet Social Security’s definition of a disability eligible for benefits.

If they deny your claim, the service also conducts the first round of your disability appeal when you request a reconsideration of their denial.

This is all a lot to manage when health problems have set you back, leaving you without the energy or the ability to work.

The Georgia disability lawyers at Silver & Archibald know the system in Georgia in depth and can help you deal with it. Our goal is helping you reach financial relief.

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