Be careful out there. You may get what you ask for.
Understandably, people want a disability hearing as soon as possible but sometimes it may hurt you. As I have explained in this blog, you can contact your congressperson or united states senator and ask them for an expedited Social Security disability hearing. Often this helps speed up the process.
However, if you are 48 or 49 years old you may want to think carefully about this approach. Or at least discuss it in detail with your lawyer. The problem is that Social Security regulations relax when you reach 50 years of age. If you can work a sit down job you can still be found disabled. If you are less than 50 years old and can perform a sit down job, then you will not be found disabled.
In this example, if you have a disability hearing before you are 50 years old you would lose, and if you did not have the hearing until after your 50th birthday you would win.