DISABILITY INFO

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Here are some sites I have found informative.

#1 site is the actual social security/disability website.

http://www.ssa.gov/disability/

When you get there, go down the middle to " social security's

definition of disability. When you reach that screen ,scroll down on

the left side, click on " calculator " to see an estimate of your

benifit amount. This site has alot of answers to many questions, so

explore!

#2 This site is for fibro & CFS,but has very good articles.First I

will give you a really good article, by an attorney, that I read and

found useful. Then I will give you the article index that has many

more articles.

http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm?ID=3900

wrote this and others, he is a disability attorney.

http://www.immunesupport.com/disability/articles.cfm?cat=disability

This is the index I talked about. I thought it would be helpful,

especially since many members here have multiple health problems.

Also, some one asked about age and disability. I'm not sure if it was

here, or another forum where I read a post where a lady received

disability the first time she applied. Age makes a difference, as

this lady was disscussing that she was in her 50's. I believe it's a

question of whether you could be rehabilitated to a new line of

work. I have a neighbor who's applied for disability. He is getting

some type of help from them, temporarily. He will have joint

replacement surgery and then they told him that he will

be " retrained " to do a different line of work. Which I think is

great for people whom, like myself, have been doing heavy manual

labor. I know that it depends on the extent of your PA, as I have

been doing strictly office work lately and there are days I could

sleep all day,if my back(or my kids ) would let me! I think it

depends on what you really have in mind and what your needs are.

Anyhow I hope this helps!!

--Merribeth