bits, and everyone else trying for SS
read the stuff online at the ssi site and everything else you can get your hands on....it is very complicated, but it has to do with the age of the applicant, the number of disabilities and if there is a job any where in the continental US that you can do.....even telemarketing, and stuff like that.
So if you can talk and sit for 8 hours to earn a live-able invome ,I think that's about 800 dollars now, then you get denied.
you have to have several debilitating issues, not just fibro which they seldom count, but add into it, an inability to walk or take a bus, or drive,
for instance you must not be able to lift your arms, sit or stand, walk, (perform widget work) and be unable to be trained etc.....
there are books that can walk you through the process.
do get a lawyer who only does ss...as he has to win or he doesn't get paid...have counceling so that you have records of your mindset etc...have all your specialists records etc,
NOW the unfortunate truth is that they are trying to not pass people because of the Problem with the governement spending money like mad hatters and the deficit and the economy. However when push comes to shove the money will be there, so keep trying!!!
Do not give up because every year older makes a huge difference in the bizare computations that go into deciding if you can have it or not.
3 times denied is rather common, (and mean if you ask me....)
Those of us who get it on the first time? Well I think 90% of it is luck and massive records.
My judge, (there is another name but I cannot remember-sheesh) read through everything. My previous doctor, whome I had worked for, and was a brides maid at her wedding, had written she did not believe I was disabled even though she had not seen me in three years. ( we had moved...) The judge asked me about this. I was stunned, heartbroknen, (guess who hasn't been on my Christmas list!) and you could have heard a pin drop in the room, even the creepy woman with the computer frantically searching for jobs stopped typing.
When he asked me why, I said that "Unlike you sir, she has obviously no idea nor compassion nor understanding of the system, if she is able to say such a thing....I had to stop working there because I was unable to do as much as they wanted."
None of this s fair to any of you waiting. And I am so sorry. We are all in the same pain boat. You might last 6 months, one month, a week, at a new job, but if you are disabled you will notbe able to continue, we both know that.
And we know the debilitating pain that truly is crippling.
It doesn't matter what we know- IT HAS TO BE IN YOUR RECORDS...it has to be documented.
In medicine and this includes mentle health, Physical therapy occupational therapy etc:
IF IT IS NOT DOCUMENTED IT DOES NOT EXIST
So stop being brave at the doctors, stop being stoical, COMPLAIN loudly and long.....tell them what you are REALLY GOING THROUGH....
please, contrary to what most of us do at a doctor visit COMPLAIN!!! about all your pain, type up a list of complaints and the amount of drugs you have to live etc. Most doctor's do not reoutinely absorb what is said.....hand them something.
Hand the list to the doctor, not the medical assistant who checks you in, she will file it and he or she may ever know you had list.....
you paid into the system, it is not a hand out, it is not charity, it is insurance!!!!!
hugs and prayers that your wait will not be much longer
Natalia
Post edited by: Natalia5150, at: 08/28/2009 03:50 AM
