It took me 2.5 years to get SSDI and the Vocational expert is what nailed it for me. Of course he never meet me before the hearing and gave  sp* hypothetical of a person with my record.

Shannon

Hello read your letter and wow!!!! you been threw the mill my hubby at the time I was married in 05 suuffered 2 heart attacks from illreuglar heart beats and has a defib devise in his chest to theis day what is said he suffered a small stroke on top of that ,Im suprised he is walking to this day,...

He had the evadance and time off work no insurance and no time saved threw work to use his vacation pay he has nothing,he was turned down 4 times to this day bc has given up on this insurance and the medicial he pay beyond the grave and then some which is sad for poeple like you and ex hubby needs it badly and do to the bullcr--p laws there is always turn downs and for some reason some person gets it and its not fair they do no really need it I heard night mare stories about the system and what people had to go threw,my huband gave up hop and faith if he is sick he still has to work because of a cheap boss who has a lot of employees and money works the employees to death and no medicial nop bennies at all please let me know how you are doing in the future...

Think positive or if not thin ha made it to the nexxt day how don;t know just made it...lol

opppps sorry let me know in the future how it is going ,the letter was for ready to fight...

Luvd_Lioness:

If I am denied this next time, I am going legal. A friend of mine gave me a referral to a free law firm that handles disability claims. 

Luvd, I saw you post a couple of weeks ago that you got a 2nd denial letter from SS. Were you able to hire an attorney to help you with your claim?

bluesong:

Luvd_Lioness:

If I am denied this next time, I am going legal. A friend of mine gave me a referral to a free law firm that handles disability claims. 

Luvd, I saw you post a couple of weeks ago that you got a 2nd denial letter from SS. Were you able to hire an attorney to help you with your claim?

I haven't heard anything back from the free clinic (law service) yet... still need to fill out most of my paperwork and send it in so I can appear before a judge. If I don't have a lawyer by the time I get my notice to appear (since I hear that there is a long wait for a judge), I will be hiring one. 

I just got an email alert from Social Security a couple of days ago. They announced that have published a new "Strategic Plan" for dealing with the problems associated with  service to the public, and workload of their core workers.

They are concentrating on four specific goals:

• Eliminate the hearings backlog and prevent its recurrence
• Improve the speed and quality of the disability process
• Improve retiree and other core services
• Preserve the public's trust in the Social Security programs

You can read the whole strategic plan here:

www.socialsecurity.gov/strategicplan.html.

It all sounds good. I hope it works.

 It is really good to hear that they are going to fix the system.  I'm in the process of applying for disability and haven't gotten the first answer yet on whether my claim is accepted.  I've been studying up on the claims process quite a bit, and there's actually a lot of "secret" kind of things that you can do to make your possibilities for being accepted a lot higher. 

 SSI doesn't tell you about them but there are a lot of sites out there with information.  I've been looking into the appeals process, because most cases go to the appeal stage, and sites like this one (disabilityappeal.com) have a lot of good information on how to properly appeal, and even end up winning your case instead of losing it because of doing the right thing.  Sometimes you even have to tell your disability lawyer what to do, they don't always know every trick in the book.