Social Security disability is one of the hardest to qualify for of any. I think something like 90 percent are turned down initially and not all that many qualify eventually.
I agree that most people are turned down initially. Now most people get attorneys and by third or fourth try they are in. One gets paid back to the initial application, so there is a big chunck that is paid out. The lawyer gets a big piece of it.
Don’t forget if you are a MINORITY applicant, you are pretty much rubber stamped through because the agency doesn’t want to be considered “racist.”