A Guide to Social Security Disability for People in Plainfield
When your health takes a turn, you have to stop working, and you wonder how you’ll support yourself, finding the right kind of help is important like never before.
People in Plainfield can get help from a neighbor—not just another group that treats you like a number—at Nash Disability Law.
Our Plainfield disability attorneys help you:
- Understand if you might qualify for life-changing Social Security Disability benefits
- Help you apply for Social Security Disability
- Help you appeal the decision if they denied you disability benefits
Social Security Disability benefits mean you get monthly income assistance so you can cover your needs and live a fuller life in Plainfield.
Nash’s disability lawyers have been helping people in the Southwest Chicago suburbs get disability benefits for decades. We have an office in Chicago, and one in Palos Hills by the Social Security Administration (SSA) office.
With Nash, you’re getting a lawyer with a deep commitment to our community and neighbors. You deserve a lawyer who takes time getting to know you to help you win benefits.
Plainfield has plenty of opportunities to find peace—Lake Renwick Preserve, DuPage River Trail, Norman Greenway Park—but there’s no peace when you’re worried about putting food on the table because of health problems and job loss.
Let us be your guide on the path to financial relief and the return of peace.
We’ve helped more people in Chicagoland win benefits than any other law firm.
In fact, we’re one of the leading disability law firms in Illinois by the total amount of benefits we win for our clients.
Talk to a Plainfield disability lawyer.
How Nash’s Plainfield Disability Attorneys Help You.
Social Security Disability benefits help people in several different situations, as long as they are unable to work because of health problems. Nash Disability Law helps with all of them:
- Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits: For people who have worked and recently paid into the system. It’s not a handout, but coverage in case of hardship. This is support you deserve to have.
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits: For people with few financial resources. You don’t need a recent work record to apply for SSI.
- SSI for children: For children with disabilities, SSI can also help their families cover costs if they qualify financially.
- Disabled adult children: Social Security has a program helping people who’ve had work-stopping disabilities from a young age and are now adults, but whose parents worked and paid Social Security taxes.
- Widow and widower benefits: Sometimes widows or widowers can also get disability benefits through Social Security if they also have a qualifying disability and their spouse who died had a qualifying record of paying into the system.
You might see national or out-of-state firms advertising that they can help you win disability benefits, but there are a lot of good reasons to go with a local lawyer in Plainfield.
Nash lawyers give you the attention you should be getting in a difficult time. Some law firms only have a lawyer prepare with you on the day of your hearing with a disability judge. We listen, get to know you, and help you prepare in advance, so you don’t get caught unready.
It helps to have a lawyer who knows about the local Social Security field and offices and local Social Security administrative law judges.
Nash’s Plainfield disability lawyers also know the medical experts and job experts the SSA brings in to testify about you, what they’re likely to say at your hearing and what questions to ask them.
And we know our local hospitals, clinics and health systems. You need a lawyer who can coordinate with your medical providers to get the medical evidence required for a successful disability claim.
Start pursuing disability benefits with a FREE consultation on your disability claim.
Going to Social Security Disability Hearings for People in Plainfield
Much of the time, winning Social Security Disability benefits requires going to a hearing to argue your claim to an administrative law judge. Most people are denied when they first apply, but many more win approval when they appeal and talk to a judge.
It’s often your only chance to make your case and to really get them to understand why you need disability benefits.
When you live in or around Plainfield, you might go to the Orland Park hearing office. In mid-2025, the judges there were approving benefits almost half the time, far better odds than when you first apply for benefits.
It can take time to get there, though, sometimes 18 months or more from the time you file your benefits application until you reach an Orland Park administrative law judge. Then it can be another few months before the judge decides on your benefits.
Don’t take chances with this process. Get an experienced Plainfield disability lawyer supporting your benefits claim.
Not only do we know the local Social Security system, but we can also sometimes point you to local community resources to help you through this difficult wait for financial relief.
Remember, at Nash Disability Law, you’re a neighbor, not a number.
You pay no attorney fee until we win your case.
Get in touch with our Plainfield disability attorneys and get on a better path forward.