Re: Attorneys fees and disability/personal injurycase etc.

April 27, 2004

I look back at it all and wonder how we went through it. On his first appeal,

the SSI doctor just shook his head and said he couldn't believe he didn't get it

the first time. I was very hopeful, then found out he was turned down again!

Took a year for that decision!

Becky

Re: [ ] Attorneys fees and disability/personal injurycase

etc.

Becky,

It really is wrong that you had to fight for what should have been approved

right away.

It¹s great that you encourage him to work, even if it¹s only a few hours.

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> I have been on the bandwagon fighting for disability for my son. It took

him

> two years, an attorney and lots of money to get it. He applied when he was

18

> and got it when he was 20. He was struck by lightning when he was 13 so it

> should have been a no brainer as far as I'm concerned. I had a US Senator

and

> Congressman fighting along the way with us. Amazing how twisted this system

> is here. We applied when he was 18 because our income did not allow him to

> receive it until he was official an adult at the age of 18. He gets SSI,

sort

> of a welfare form of disability since it did not pay into the system, even

> though we have. He only gets $564 a month and $58 a month in food stamps.

He

> gets a state medical card which does not pay for everything. Sometimes they

> will only pay for half of a prescription unless the doctor changes the

> prescription to something they approve. He cannot live on $564 a month and

> cannot eat on $58 a month. If he works, which is can work a few hours a day

> on a good day, after $80 a month in wages he looses SSI dollar for dollar.

> There is no incentive for him to work but he tries as his ultimate goal is

to

> work full time and no longer receive disability. However, as his mother, I

> know that will never be possible but I don't tell him that.

>

> Becky

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