Posted on 07/06/2012 7:36:27 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Oh, I get it - duh?
No not until the process was over, you can’t apply until you have been disabled/can’t work for a year.
It never occurred to me that I would be disabled enough not to work my chosen career path. I was wrong.
So I actually applied 2009, about December, was denied because I was one quarter short of the min needed in the previous ten years.
Maybe I should just reapply? ;-)
They have been turning people down on the first try and then when they appeal it, there is a 12 to 18 month wait until you get a court date to present your case to a judge.
There are three stages. The first reply will come in 60 days. The second is much longer but I’m not sure how long that is. I think it’s six months after the first rejection. The third stage is where you go before a “judge” and I’m told that can take years.
Like I said, I don’t know how they expect people to live who are truly disabled.
Another stupid thing about SS. If you’re disabled, you allowed to earn up to $15,000 a year working part time. But you can’t work at all UNTIL you’re deemed disabled.
Lawyers get paid 25% of the back pay. They won’t take a case until the applicant has been turned down. What they do is run ads and then talk people into applying online. Their apps are so incomplete it’s ridiculous. So, they’re rejected. Then the lawyer takes over and explains how it should be done and re-applies for you. If you win he gets his 25%. To the shysters it’s all a numbers game.
You don’t have to be disabled for a year. You have to be disabled and EXPECT that you won’t ever be able to work. If a guy loses both arms and both legs he can apply immediately. Or if a person is diagnosed with a disease and is givin only so long to live.
That is interesting, maybe even with the 25% kick back I should find a lawyer.
I certainly could be wrong on this. My company paid me 80% of my salary for two years (which really was the same because no taxes were taken out) and picked up all the medical costs for four years.
My intent was to go back to work, and didn’t find out till after all this that I was classified as disabled.
Thanks for the info.
SS sets the attorney’s price. It’s 25% of back pay. That’s why they won’t take a case until it’s been turned down. And don’t go to the shysters advertising on TV...like Bender and Bender. All they’ll do is fill out paperwork that you can fill out yourself.
The nation’s workforce expanded by 189,000 in June, 85,000 were added to social security’s disability rolls while only 80,000 unemployed found jobs, and Obama calls it a “step in the right direction”. Anyone who thinks he deserves another four years must be getting all their news from MSNBC.
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