Mark Buchner is a lawyer serving Tulsa and surrounding areas focusing only on Social Security Disability.
By law, attorneys practicing before SSA cannot charge an attorney’s fee unless SSA approves that fee.
Fees are usually contingent, which means the attorney gets paid if he wins.
Attorneys typically recover fees for representing a claimant before SSA, when the claimant is found disabled and eligible to receive disability benefits.
A written document, signed by the claimant, appointing the attorney to represent him or her, must be filed with SSA, along with a fee agreement.
SSA controls the amounts an attorney can charge, once the claimant is granted benefits, and will send the claimant and the attorney a notice of the attorney’s fees that will be paid.