Disability

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Here is another post from Connie.

Greg, I read about your social security, and I am very glad it went through. However, a lawyer had nothing to do with the case being approved. I am a medical disability examiner adjudicator, DOH-DDS; I started working for them 8/8/08. I thought the same thing everybody else did, i.e. they disapprove everybody the first time, and you need a lawyer. I get so upset when people are filing an initial case, hire a lawyer only to lose 25% or more of their back pay to them when I haven't so much as received a phone call from the atty, more less paperwork. We don't pay any attention to lawyers on the initial or recon level, they are no threat to me, they don't have any input on my decision, and my decision doesn't change because their name is on the case. What makes me the adjudicator you want if you are sick, is the fact that I know where people are coming from. I know what it is like to be chronically ill. And I fight very hard for the people who need social security. I hope I can do some good before this illness forces me to stop. Because I work for an agency that understands disability, and the job is office computer work; I am still plugging. Please understand I am not fussing at anybody who chooses to use an attorney, I just hate to see good people who need help get abused, and somebody take something they could use, just because of hearsay and rumor and just because they can. At the intial filing level or recon level of social security disability cases, lawyers collect money off social security cases for doing nothing. People filing for SSD and SSI cases really get abused. The only time a lawyer is needed if is you are going to a court appeal.

Social security disability has finally recognized that sarcoid is a rare and different disease and they have come up with a lisiting to address the rare. This is a giant step for people with sarcoid, and the disability cases.

Some mistakes that I see are people don't fully write out their allegations. They just hit the high spots, that limits our ammunition to approve the case. They also don't give us all the sources of care past and present.

Using my cane and climbing off my soapbox now. Take care out there. Sorry I don't write more, my neck is really messed up and sitting at the computer at home is very hard.

Take care all, Connie

(And yes I really do work for who I say I do, this is my office # X4069; call me if you need me)

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