30 Years Serving Clients
Brock & Stout was founded in 1996. For three decades, our firm has helped people and families through difficult legal and financial circumstances.
Social Security Disability Attorneys
Unable to work because of a medical condition? You don’t have to take on Social Security alone.
Brock & Stout represents disability claimants nationwide. Whether you're applying for the first time, appealing a denial, or preparing for a hearing, our team can help you understand what Social Security is looking for and build the strongest claim the evidence supports.
Nationwide representation · 30 years serving clients · 12,000+ disability claims approved. Choose a time and our team will call you.
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When Your Health Keeps You From Working, the Disability Claim Matters
A serious medical condition can affect much more than your health. If you can no longer work consistently, you may also be facing lost income, medical expenses and uncertainty about how you are going to support yourself and your family.
Social Security Disability benefits can provide important financial support, but getting through the process is not always simple. SSA looks at your medical evidence, work history, daily limitations and whether your condition keeps you from performing work on a sustained basis.
That is where Brock & Stout can help.
Our Social Security Disability team works with clients from the initial application through appeals and hearings. We review the evidence, help identify what Social Security needs to evaluate the claim, communicate with SSA, monitor important deadlines and help present the effect your medical conditions have on your ability to work.
You focus on your health.
Let us focus on the disability claim.
Social Security Disability is a federal program, so our disability lawyers can represent claimants across the United States. See how nationwide coverage works.
Free consultation · No attorney fees or case costs if the claim is denied
No Attorney Fees or Case Costs if Your Claim Is Denied
It costs nothing to talk with us about your potential disability claim. If Brock & Stout represents you, attorney fees are generally paid from past-due benefits following a favorable decision and are subject to Social Security’s rules and approval. If the claim is denied, you do not owe Brock & Stout attorney fees or case costs.
Why Choose Brock & Stout for Your Disability Claim?
Hiring a disability attorney should mean more than having someone submit paperwork for you. You should have a team that understands how Social Security evaluates claims, keeps your case moving and is ready to help when problems arise.
30
Years Serving Clients
12,000+
Disability Claims Approved
20
Attorneys
Nationwide
Disability Representation
Firmwide figures. Not every attorney practices Social Security Disability. The approval total is a historical firm metric, not a promise about any future claim.
12,000+ Disability Claims Approved
Our firm has helped more than 12,000 disability claims reach approval. Every case is different, and past results cannot guarantee a future outcome, but that experience gives our team extensive familiarity with the disability process.
A Team Behind Your Claim
Brock & Stout has 20 attorneys and more than 100 staff across the firm. Disability clients benefit from the resources of an established law firm while still having a team responsible for helping move their individual claim forward.
Nationwide Representation
Social Security Disability is a federal program, so our disability attorneys can represent claimants throughout the United States. You do not need to live near one of our offices to work with us. Much of the process can be handled by phone, video and secure document exchange.
It costs nothing to talk with us about your potential disability claim.
Meet Our Social Security Disability Attorneys
Social Security Disability is a federal program, so these attorneys can represent claimants at hearings nationwide. Each profile is maintained in our attorney directory.
Wherever You Are in the Disability Process, We Can Start There
Thinking About Applying?
Starting the claim correctly matters. We can review your work history, medical conditions and current situation and help you understand what information SSA will need.
Help With an Application — request a free disability case evaluation
Already Been Denied?
A denial does not necessarily mean the claim is over. Appeal deadlines can be short, and an appeal is an opportunity to address weaknesses in the evidence and continue pursuing the claim.
Help With an Appeal — request a free disability case evaluation
Waiting for a Disability Hearing?
A hearing is an important stage of the claim. We can help prepare you for what to expect, review the medical and vocational evidence, and present your case to the administrative law judge.
Help With a Hearing — request a free disability case evaluation
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What Does a Disability Attorney Actually Do?
Many people contact us because they know they need help but aren’t sure what a disability attorney can actually change about the process. Our role is to help make sure Social Security receives an accurate, well-supported picture of your medical conditions and how they affect your ability to work.
Depending on the stage of the claim, our team may:
- Review your medical conditions and work history
- Help identify records and evidence relevant to the claim
- Assist with Social Security forms and questionnaires
- Communicate with SSA about the claim
- Monitor deadlines and case status
- Review unfavorable decisions
- File or assist with appeals
- Prepare you for a disability hearing
- Review medical and vocational evidence
- Question witnesses when appropriate at a hearing
- Present legal arguments supporting the claim
- Keep you informed about what is happening and what comes next
You should not have to learn Social Security’s rules while also dealing with a serious health problem. Our job is to understand the disability process and help you through it.
SSDI, SSI, and Disabled Adult Child Benefits
SSDI
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is for people who have worked and earned enough Social Security work credits but are now unable to sustain substantial work because of a qualifying medical condition. The number and recency of work credits required depend in part on the worker’s age when disability begins.
Learn About SSDISSI
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a needs-based program for people with limited income and resources who are disabled, blind, or age 65 or older and meet the program’s other eligibility requirements. Unlike SSDI, eligibility is not based on the claimant’s own work credits.
Learn About SSIDisabled Adult Child Benefits
Some adults whose disability began before age 22 may be able to receive benefits based on a parent’s Social Security record. These benefits have different eligibility rules from SSDI based on the adult child’s own work history.
Learn About Disabled Adult Child BenefitsLearn More About Social Security Disability
Medical Conditions
See how Social Security evaluates different physical and mental conditions, what medical evidence may matter, and why the diagnosis itself is only part of the disability decision.
Browse Disability Condition GuidesDo You Qualify?
Learn the five questions Social Security uses to decide whether an adult meets its medical definition of disability.
See How SSA Evaluates DisabilityThe Disability Claim Process
Understand what happens after an application is filed, what a denial means, and how reconsideration, hearings and later appeals work.
See the Disability Claim ProcessDisability Tools & Calculators
Use our tools to better understand concepts such as substantial gainful activity and other parts of the disability process.
View Disability ToolsAm I eligible for Social Security Disability?
These five questions are SSA’s medical test — sequential evaluation — not the path the file takes from application to hearing. Substantial gainful activity amounts change; being under SGA is not an approval. Current figures are on SSA’s SGA chart. For a fuller explanation, see Do You Qualify? For application, reconsideration, and hearing, see our disability claim process page.
SSA first asks whether you are performing substantial gainful activity, or SGA. Earnings are an important part of that analysis, but SSA applies rules about what earnings count, and self-employment is evaluated differently. SSA publishes current SGA amounts each year (opens in a new tab). Special rules also apply to statutory blindness.
The second step asks whether you have a medically determinable impairment that more than minimally limits basic work activities. The impairment may be physical or mental. If there is no severe impairment, the claim is denied here. If there is one or more, the claim continues.
Step three compares the medical evidence to SSA’s Listing of Impairments. Meeting or medically equaling a listing is a finding of disability at this step. Not meeting a listing is not a denial by itself — the claim continues to residual functional capacity and vocational steps.
If no listing is met, SSA decides whether you can still do past relevant work given your residual functional capacity. Past relevant work is generally substantial work from the last five years that lasted long enough to learn. If you can still do that work, the claim is denied at this step. If you cannot, the claim proceeds to other work.
The last step asks whether you can adjust to other work that exists in significant numbers, considering your RFC, age, education, and work experience. If other work remains, the claim is denied. If it does not, SSA finds you disabled at this step.
Thousands of Clients Have Trusted Brock & Stout
Brock & Stout has received more than 8,000 five-star reviews across the firm. These reviews reflect client experiences across our practice areas.
Brock and Stout Law firm did an exceptional job representing me with my appeal for my social security disability case. Brock and Stout was professional from day one. I had an awesome team that handled my case. My paperwork was prepared, and executed. I would not change a thing. I am so happy that I chose Brock and stout Law Firm to handle my appeal. I recommend Brock & Stout Law Firm to everybody that is trying to get their social security disability. They will get the job done! Thank you Brock & Stout Law Firm.
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Recent Disability Articles
Episodic Conditions Disability: Can You Qualify for SSDI?
Oct 5, 2026 | Social Security Disability, Walter Blakeney
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Many people assume they cannot qualify for Social Security Disability because their symptoms are not severe every day. However, episodic conditions disability claims are common when a medical condition causes recurring flare-ups that make it…
Read More: Episodic Conditions Disability: Can You Qualify for SSDI?
Mental vs. Physical RFC: How SSA Evaluates You
Oct 1, 2026 | Social Security Disability, Walter Blakeney
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes When applying for Social Security disability benefits, a diagnosis is only part of the evaluation. Social Security also considers how a person’s medically determinable conditions affect what they can still do in a work setting…
Read More: Mental vs. Physical RFC: How SSA Evaluates You
Medical Evidence Needed for a Mental Health Disability Claim
Sep 24, 2026 | Social Security Disability, Joseph Campbell
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes A mental health diagnosis can affect nearly every part of daily life, but a diagnosis alone does not automatically qualify someone for Social Security Disability benefits. Social Security looks for medical evidence for a mental…
Read More: Medical Evidence Needed for a Mental Health Disability ClaimYou Don’t Have to Take On Social Security Alone
Whether you’re thinking about applying, have already been denied, or are waiting for a hearing, you can talk with us about where your claim stands and what comes next. Tell us what you’re dealing with. We’ll listen, review the situation and explain whether Brock & Stout can help.
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