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If you were drinking during the ssdi application process, that may have impacted their decision(s).

From http://www.disabilitylawyers.com/res...for-alcoholism

"Social Security will try to determine if your alcoholism contributes to your disability (this is called a drug or alcohol addiction (DAA) determination). If so, you will not be granted disability benefits. But it doesn’t matter if your past drinking caused the condition, for example, alcoholic hepatitis of the liver brought on by drinking, just whether your current drinking is exacerbating the problem.

Consider an example. You have severe heart disease and apply for Social Security disability benefits because you can’t work as a result of your condition. If your drinking is found to exacerbate your heart disease, you won’t be granted disability benefits. However, if the SSA’s medical consultant believes that stopping drinking would not improve your condition, then your alcoholism is “immaterial,” or irrelevant to your case, and you could be approved."


And from another page on that site: http://www.disabilitylawyers.com/res...alcoholism-aff

"If you have physical or mental problems other than your alcoholism or drug addiction that are disabling, and the problems would clearly exist even if you stopped drinking or using drugs, you should qualify for disability benefits. This is true whether or not your drinking or drug use caused the physical or mental problems in the first place."

"They key in either case is that your drinking or drug dependence can’t exacerbate the problem. In SSA terms, the medical consultant assigned to you by the SSA will determine whether your drinking or drug use is a “contributing factor material to the determination of disability"