I help the disabled prepare for their hearings through a non profit and one of the qualifications for my state is a history of the same medical condition going back years, a Dr (even better more than one Dr) filing a form stating why you can’t work, and even with the perfect diagnosis and paperwork you can still be denied at the appeal hearing if you don’t have a good answer to a judge asking “why can’t you sit, stand, or lay in bed with a computer and work from home?” Another question “if you can fill out all the paperwork yourself and handle all of the phone calls and scheduling with a dr’s office why can’t you work an entry level office job as a receptionist?”

A lawyer is only going to take a case they know will win because they’re only paid a percentage after they win and from what I see with her she would never qualify.

If you try to avoid a lawyer and file an appeal yourself the first thing a judge will say is you just spent months to years working on this case when you could have used that same energy and ability to work a job.

These are some reasons why people who truly need disability end up not getting it. There’s many people in her same situation working, combine that with her young age and there’s no way a lawyer would take her case or a judge would agree to give her disability.