Matt Ormsby is a Utah Social Security Disability lawyer with more than 11 years of experience helping people through the difficult process of winning crucial financial relief when they can’t work due to bad health.
To qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits, you have to work and pay enough taxes into the system. It’s coverage you pay for through work, which is why it’s frustrating that most people who apply for benefits must fight denials.
Matt makes it his mission to fight for people to get the support they have earned and deserve.
“I often tell my clients that my job should not exist,” Matt says. “The government makes it too difficult for people to get the benefits they are entitled to. I feel privileged to assist people in obtaining the assistance they need.”
Matt focuses on representing people in hearings with disability judges.
His work includes creating strategies for disability hearings, preparing clients to testify, guiding clients through their hearings, filing necessary legal documents before and after hearings, and taking disability appeals to the next level—Social Security’s Appeals Council—if needed.
A native Utahn, Matt has a longtime commitment to helping people. At Utah State University, he volunteered as a leader of the USU Special Olympics team, providing sports training and athletic competitions for people with intellectual disabilities.
Outside of work, Matt spends time with his four children, reads, skis, mountain bikes and travels.
The Utah Social Security Disability lawyers and their team at Barnes Disability Advocates have decades of experience helping thousands of people win life-changing disability benefits. We want to help you get a better foundation to focus on your health and feeling better. We never forget that EVERYONE MATTERS.
“From the first call until my Social Security Disability was approved on October 1, 2024, everyone in the firm always treated me like I was the most important client that they had. I met with the Social Security doctor on Saturday, August 31st, the beginning of Labor Day weekend. And on Sunday, Jay Barnes contacted me regarding how everything went. I thought it went quite well, and apparently it did, since my next contact was my approval, without a hearing before an ALJ. My experience with the Jay Barnes firm ranked as one of the most pleasant and successful business endeavors of my life.”