For a while, you had issues, and those issues unfortunately have consequences.

You know this well, seeing as you’re suffering the physical effects after years of heavy drug or alcohol use. But you’re beginning to learn it better, now that the federal government has either denied your application for Social Security Disability benefits or has ceased your income altogether for this very reason.

It’s worth knowing that having a disability based on drug and alcohol addiction eliminates you from eligibility for Illinois Social Security Disability benefits.

These, of course, are often based on medical records and comments, affidavits and other statements taken from doctors that formally link the issues you’re having to your past history of drug and alcohol use. It’s often a lengthy case stacked against you.

But that may not mean that you cannot come by these entitlements that you’ve worked so long and hard supporting the system for all of your life to one day enjoy when you need them. This may be one of the reasons that finding a lawyer with a specialty in Illinois Social Security Disability claims can help.

In fact, there are countless arguments for, at the very least, picking up the phone and at the very least scheduling an informal consultation. Most times, these legal professionals will not collect until you’ve won some sum of money, and just as often will offer free consultations for people with questions – people like you.

Though your disability may have something to do with your past, that’s not to say that the services of an Illinois Social Security Disability lawyer can’t help you in court. In fact, this is one of the most common uses for having such a legal professional as your guide.