Historical
Connection!
Why
Disability Advocacy has such a promising future!
In Social Security's 8/99 release of the "Standards
for non-attorney representatives", SSA for the first time acknowledged the growing
importance of the Disability Advocate. It appears from the report that non-attorney
representation is growing so fast that SSA was compelled to produce more detailed
standards. Social Security is also planning to This simple acknowledgement foretells an exciting future for this field!
Within our online brochure, we have
discussed a number of reasons why the disability representational concept is so
powerful. Those reasons include, but are not limited to, the uniqueness of this
field; historically consistent growth in the number of persons applying for disability
benefits and the fact that like all good business concepts, disability
advocacy meets a basic customer need!
However, there is a fundamental
aspect to this business that even an eagle-eyed entrepreneur might well overlook.
That fundamental aspect lies in the answer to a single question. Has anything like
this ever been done before? If the answer is yes, the chances that a similar
business concept will also succeed greatly increase! Several decades ago, two brothers
had a unique vision. They saw extreme financial promise in an obscure
government process called tax preparation. In their day, this process was performed
almost exclusively by tax attorneys and CPAs.
The greatest obstacle to H&R Block's success was how to simplify a complex government
process and teach it to ordinary people. If ordinary people could perform tax
preparation, quality and efficiency would increase. This would in turn attract more
customers to the service increasing the need for more practitioners. The
result of all this was a significant expansion of the field. Needless
to say, H&R Block solved the training dilemma and became the most commonly
used tax preparation service in America.
Disability Advocacy is the tax
preparation business analogy for the new millennium. It has the same positive
characteristics that have made the tax preparation business so successful over the last
thirty years. We envision a time when a disabled person will use a disability
advocate in much the same way as we now use tax professionals. This will only
occur when Disability Advocacy is made available in all communities, large and small,
making it convenient for the ordinary applicant. Making this unique field available
to the masses is the bottom line reason for our exclusive training system!
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