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[getaclue]

They checked on SSI, he makes too much, and SS Disability, which I would have to have worked at least 5 years during the past 10 years. There were a couple other things they checked too. I don't qualify for any of it. Yes, each of them have different rules, but I don't meet the criteria for any of them.

 

[chickadoodles]

Clue when I came out of the hospital in 2013 I did not mess around with them.
I hired an attorney and they got me my disability on the first go.
SS denies everyone! It's crazy but most of the time people are eligible but some have to go through the 3rd denial to go before a judge to get their money. They did look at my dh's income but only told me I was not eligible for the SSI part due to Dh's income.
I did get my disability and even owning 2 homes I am still eligible. Get an attorney!
They can only charge if they get you your money with back pay. If there is no back pay they don't get paid!

 

[microchick]

I tried for my disability three times when I was off work for almost 5 years due to my Rheumatic Fever. Doctor wrote letters, I pushed it, did everything anybody could think of they kept denying. Claimed I was too young and too well trained to be disabled in spite of my health being crap. They ultimately falsified records claiming I had only been seen by a doctor once in the past three years and then it was for a sprained wrist. Not me. I was seeing the doctor every month then every two months at the time.

I finally gave up. Shouldn't have. Should have gotten a lawyer. When they told me I was too young to be disabled I asked them if the state of IL was so anxious to have somebody else on the welfare ticket and their response was oh! You would just be sent back here since your health is keeping you from working.They finally confided in me that the reason I wasn't being approved was because of the back benefits they would have to give me. WHen I said 'a lot?' the woman just said 'a REAL BIG lot'. One offered to send me to the local handicapped center for 'retraining'. When I told the doctor that he went postal and told me that was ridiculous. I was a nurse, I couldn't work. It would be like offering to send him to be retrained.

It's a racket. Sitting at church one day talking to an older lady she said, she had just had her disability approved due to high blood pressure. She was a cashier at the local Krogers. She leaned over and told me all I had to do was tell them I was an alcoholic and they would approve me immediately. I was stunned and told her so. No way I wanted that label pinned on me. I didn't have a drinking problem. I had rheumatic fever. She told me it didn't matter. Just tell them that....

I put a lot of space between her and me.

I add my vote to lawyer up.

 

[bruceha2000]

I just got back from the social security office. I can't collect squat until Dh retires, and that won't be for another 3 and a half years. I would have to have worked 5 out of the past 10 years to qualify for Disability. I didn't. I can't collect disability off of his, unless he too is collecting disability. He earns too much for me to get SSI. When he retires, and gets social security, then I can get it too. I would qualify under my ex's social security, and disability, except that I remarried. Can't catch a break.

Would you not be eligible for your own SS when you hit 62ish?

Have a friend that had a stroke a couple of years ago at the age of 58. Could talk but the "dictionary to mouth" path was totally screwed. Couldn't find the right words to make himself understood. I would have to ask "Do you mean" and he would say yes or no. I was driving him and he would say "turn left", I would point and ask "that way?" "No, that way" - yes to the right. So he knew how to get places but couldn't communicate what what in his head. He had been an electrical engineer. Denied disability because he could be retrained to do something else ... according to them. He wound up cleaning rooms in a retirement home and the only reason he didn't lose his house was because his father made the mortgage payments. Dad had died, house has been sold.

I guess the suggestion to lawyer up could have been good advice. Probably too late now.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

For ssi disability? I thought that had different rules.

My Father was denied in the 1970s. He had MS

That's horrible I can't believe the ignorance of some people,Im so sorry.
Maybe it's different for every state just an opinion

 

[ronott1]

That's horrible I can't believe the ignorance of some people,Im so sorry.
Maybe it's different for every state just an opinion

It seems to be a problem in the entire US. It is a Federal program.

It was terrible! I had no choice in it being a child. It would have been very helpful because we, the children, would have gotten money that we could use for college and there would have been enough money to live on. It was tough growing up.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

It seems to be a problem in the entire US. It is a Federal program.

It was terrible! I had no choice in it being a child. It would have been very helpful because we, the children, would have gotten money that we could use for college and there would have been enough money to live on. It was tough growing up.

I know that feeling but for different reasons
If only we could go back in time just for a brief moment
It would be nice if this program could change for the better be more helpful than a hindrance it's just not right

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Here's a cooling image for those who need it,sweet dreams everyone

 

[drumstick diva]

I'm feeling cooler already Misty, I may have to put on a long sleeved t-shirt. Thanks.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I first was denied ssdi because I was not blind enough had the 30 % I have in my left 18 %in the right I had a adjudicator from ssi he said you kidding with the rest of your history
He told me he was going to pull it back in .. in the mean time I lost the 18% in my right it all went dark after the first decompression surgery I was approved then