SSI..DENIED

...but seriously: WTF are they thinking? So infuriating!

I'm sorry to hear about this, and the last thing you need is more to worry about. There's a group that may be able to help you find a good lawyer with experience in this area: The Cancer Legal Resource Center. Hopefully they can hook you up!

Im sorry you were denied, and I would definetly appeal, or seek legal help.  I have a 30 year old daughter who is a twin, she was born premature and lost her hearing  however that is all the handicap she has.  She is a beautiful young woman and I am proud of her, however she qualified for SSI when she was around 5 years old and has been on it for 25 years now.  Im her father and love her but always felt she should be able to work which she has sometimes but never lasted at a job.  My point is she qualified for SSI for being deaf only, so I just wanted you to know you should as well, you have more issues than she does and I find it frustrating that they  think you are not qualified.  So again I share this personal information with you not sure if it will help but again Appeal and give it another shot.  Have you checked to see if you might qualify for SSA disability, if you worked in the past you would have paid in to social security.  Continue to pray about it God will work something out for you, I know its hard to keep the faith when things seem to be going backwards but after reading many of your post I know you trust God to provide so keep trusting.

Hi Rachel,

Sometimes the only way you can beat an )@(*#^ is with an )@(*#^  ... time to contact an attorney! 

They have specialists just for this situation. Nothing out of pocket, just a percentage after the checks start coming in. 

"T"

phrannie51 said:

I truly think that SSD claims are nearly

always denied on the first go around, so let this get to ya.  I did some reading tonight (slow night at work), and found a site that explains much of what folks go thru in trying to obtain SSDI....one paragraph did strike me was:

"Statistics indicate that social security disability and SSI claims with representation (either non-attorney or attorney) yield more allowances than disability claims that are unrepresented and presented to a judge by the disability claimant (you)."

...so getting an attorney does seem to make a difference.....

http://www.ssdrc.com/disabilityquestions1-25.html

 

Rachel,

I know how frustrated you must feel, but as everyone says "Don't give up".  I'll be talking to my daughter this weekend and see what group she used for help. There must be a way!

Luv,

Wolfen

rachel12yrsuv said:

Hey everyone,
Not replying to
Hey everyone,

Not replying to one but all of the above. I am calmer now and thank u for letting me vent. I will take all your advice and tomorrow seek legal help, I just hate when you have to learn a lessen the hard way, the goverment really doesn't work for us, the good people, just the crooks!

Again your all wonderful thank you!

Rachel

Head and neck cancer is on the SSD list of compassionate allowances. you should have tried for disability first. I think the people who review disability cases are more knowledgable about the effects these treatments have on our bodies and minds. When I applied for disability it was reviewed, approved and back pay was in my account in exactly 13 days. I'm confident that an attorney can get this approved.

I cannot BELIEVE you have been denied!  OMG I work with a 40 something woman who claims to be disabled but we all know she is NOT but she gets SSD works up to the very penny she can make p/t 6 days a week and hse is also on Sec 8 knows the system well...it is so unfair!  If you hire a Lawyer they will take 1/3 of any backpay you may receive and it's a long process...whta state do you live in?  Perhaps a visit to the office is in order...just a sugestion...I thought that the other day I saw you had been approved maybe my error...keep on fighting!  It is so unfair as I know from my Husband who is in a very similar situation as you and he was approved back in 2010 returned to work p/t and no longer can work at all due to his swallowing issues he has Carpel Tunnel and no relflexes due to the Rads and chemo...along with several other problems.  Get Dr letters from all of your Dr's and make an Appt at your local Social Security Offfice and bring all your medicall records you can get a hold of.  yes the cheaters and people who never paid taxes in the USA are taking money away from the people who worked hard and didn't ask to get Cancer and suffer along with all the expensies you incure being sick.  My prayers are with you, but I would deffinatly get letters from all your Dr's and bring them to the SS Office...you may be surprised at how it may go smoothly,  Sending my thoughts to you and your Daughter as you are in a very tough situation...may there be a Rainbow at the end of this mess for you....keep your spirits up...and FIGHT.

Em11 said:

Legal help.  That's what it

Legal help.  That's what it took for us.  I don't even remember how we were referred to our lawyer.  I think she might have called us first.  We were denied once, and I said something to our oncologist's nurse practitioner about it.  She said that most people do have a hard time convincing the powers that be that cancer is indeed debilitating.  Seems all that good publicity about surviving is making some people think that cancer is a cakewalk now.  Society seems to think it's a little chemo, buy a pretty wig, go to a support group, get some plastic surgery, and voila!  Cancer over.  But cancer survivors know it isn't so easy.  I suspect our doctor's office gave our name to someone, but regardless, it helped.  One 4 hour court appearance with that lawyer and my husband was approved.  First check came in three months. 

Don't get discouraged.  I had to appeal with a lawyer that specialized in SS Disability claims.  It will probably take a while before your case gets posted on a judge's docket unless maybe you are in a smaller community with a lesser caseload.  As T stated above, don't worry about paying the lawyer.  SS will send his/her part directly out of your first check (which will include benefits retroactive to when you were first deemed disabled).