SS Disability - Advocator Group
 

The Advocator Group - Friends, Has anyone had experience working with them to obtain social security disability benefits? Here is the website: http://www.advocator.com/. My LTD firm has offered them to me at no cost to help me obtain benefits and I am trying to find out if anyone has had good or bad experiences with them. tx all!

I have been reading some on the internet and they really sound pretty good, but then I read this statement from a disabled individual working with The Advocator Group:
DO NOT USE THE INSURANCE COMPANY RECOMMENDED ATTORNEYS! – keep your business totally separate by using attorneys that have no relationship whatsoever with the insurance and protect your interests.

Hmmm... that is concerning

I don't know anything about that website or their services. I'll have to check it out now.

I wonder what the customer, who used their services and made that quote, had for an experience.

It seems to me that the "interest" of such a company is to help you get benefits, which also happens to be in YOUR best interest. I'm not seeing a conflict there.

Certainly, if someone had to pay for the legal help in securing SSDI benefits (now a max of $6000), it does "hurt" when you think about how much nicer that back pay check would be if it were $6000 bigger. I could have used the $5600 it cost me back when I applied. I still look at it as totally worth it. Even if I could have eventually succeeded on my own, I don't know that I could have done the work to get the job done. My lawyer was the one who educated me that my FCR's were lacking and that I needed more specific info on there. I believe (as does my lawyer) that the new forms completed by my PCP, my neuro, and myself were what swayed the judge at my ALJ hearing.

When I started my claim, I hadn't yet met my neuro and I was in constant intractable pain. I could NOT have read through my medical records and understood what was there and what was missing, despite the fact that I was an RN and could have easily understood the issues before I developed RSD.

Despite their disabilities, there are MANY posters here that seem to have a lot better understanding of the process and ability to be proactive for themselves than I could have at that time. Now my pain levels are more manageable. If I were doing it again now, I might make a different decision and try to do it all on my own. At the time I was applying, I could not have done it without help.

Trying to save that $6000 is a personal decision for each person that applies and one answer does not work for all.

If you can get that help FOR FREE......that's a no brainer for me. I just can't understand how free help could go against your best interests in this situation.

tx Finz; sent you a private msg with some details.

I just read some reviews of the company from former employees, very interesting. Horrible reviews...1.4 out of 5 stars. Looks like they are always understaffed for the workload and have a very high turnover.

Something to consider...

Many thanks Nanc!!