Social Security Law Office for the Rio Grande Valley - Mark Di Carlo, PLLC

05/30/2026

Me, generally explaining the two Disability programs to a possible client:

"Well, you have to have worked 5 of the past 10 years to get social security disability. And you have not.

As to the other program, for Supplemental Security Kncome. Your husband works and makes good money at $100,000.00 per year, so you do not qualify for Supplemental Security Income because your income is too high.

So generally, no matter how disabled you are, if God forbid you didn't have any arms or legs you could not get either program and do not qualify for either program."

05/07/2026

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04/30/2026

Generally, you have to be seeing Doctors on a regular basis to win your social security disability case.

04/16/2026

The lawyers fees for a Social Security Disability case are generally 25% of the past due benefits, up to $9,200.00.

04/16/2026

One of the major issues in a Social Security Disability case is whether or not you can do an easy job.

03/26/2026

A woman called me up to represent her daughter for a Motion to Revoke Probation pending in Nueces County, I had reprensted her daughter for her social security disability case and won.

The issues include that if you are jailed, very long they will terminate your social secuirty disability and you will have to apply again when you get out of jail or prison. And it is by no means certain that you will obtain benefits when you get out of prison and apply again.

Technically, it should be relatively easy to obtain social security disability benefuts again, because most people pjhysical and mental conditions do not markedly improve. But it is not easy.

I am under the impression, that he Social Security Administration thinks, well you had your chance and you blew it. And of course, this is not something that I can prove.

03/09/2026

A woman just called me up, who had helped her father when her social security disability case.

However, she was disappointed and he was disappointed, about the fact that they felt that he was entitled to an additional one year in past due benefits.

Therefore, they wanted to hire me to do the appeal, so they could procure that additional year in past due benefits.

The problem with me doing the appeal was that I would have to get to know and read the entire case, including the medical records. in order to come up with an appropriate legal and factual argument to appeal the case.

I told her that I could not handle the appeal for the past due benefits.

I stared that if she desired to appeal , she could do so for her father; or, she could look for another Attorney to do the appeal.

That is one disadvantage in handling your own case.

03/06/2026

I just completed the appeal of a Judges unfavorable decision on a social security disability case.

My notes reflect that I was interrupted by the Judge four times.

One time I was asking my client, how much he currently weighed, and the Judge told me to "move on" because he already had him listed as "obese."

I stated as one point on appeal that the Judge stated he considered all of the evidence regarding obesity. I stated in the appeal that the Judge could not consider all of the evidence, if he did not consider my clients weight on the date of the hearing.

The obesity of the claimant is supposed to be considered with other related factors, such as musculoskeletal problems in determining a person's physical ability to work.

This was one of two or three arguments, I made on appeal in order to attempt to override the Judges unfavorable decision.

02/07/2026

I saw the largest award I have ever seen on a Disability Case so far. About $150,000.00. That is very, very, rare, for several reasons though.

02/01/2026

"You might have all these impairments, but unless you are going to Doctors to treat and document them, generally you cannot win your case."

01/16/2026

"It's a good case. He's over 50. Only has a 10th grade education. And has only done hard physical labor as a mechanic."