Chris: Pleased for you.

We regularly, but not too often, receive messages asking for infro/assistance in obtaining disability benefits.

If you had some "professional" advice, learned what kinds of information to supply or points to emphasize, etc.--any info which would help others file an application--you might consider writing  that infro up and ask DJ to consider making it a permanent posting in the "Important Messages" section.

Most folks here really have little to offer on this project and your experience could be very helpful.

Yes, it's a good thing you don't need my approval. Just my continuing contributions.

So, tell me - are you glad you have gotten disability, or would you rather be working? These things (disability approval) don't tend to be temporary.

Chris that's great news. As mentioned earlier, we get a lot of people trying to wend their way thru the disability maze. We are in the process of developing a "hall of fame" board for topics like this that have such a broad appeal. Please condense what you went thru, when you're able. We'll be hitting you up for details soon!

Joe

Good job on airing your opinions respectfully and carefully, guys. It shows the strength of this Board and the level of compassion we have for one another. Just curious, though. I'd be interested to know what market or job is available for a stay-at-home lucid and intelligent person? Not arguing, really wondering. Can one get paid for being able to write, apart from cranking out the newest thang in fiction? Blessings! lance

Ears pricked up across the board to see what the answer is to Lance's question! We're about to FLOOD that marketplace, methinks!

Hi Chris,
In the 25 year I have had CH I have had so many jobs between cycles that I no longer seem employable, I have not tried to find work with an employer since I was diagnosed last year, as I am trying my own venture first so I don't have to let others down again.

Here in the UK, being registered disabled would at least mean that if I disclosed my condition at the interview they would be obliged to keep my job open for me during the cycle. This could be some kind of precedent for my case, I thank you for sharing this with us.

Blessings
Tony

Chris, I know next to nothing about Disability, so humor me here.

     Are you recieving disability for CH and CH alone?  How is it that each of your college-age daughters are eligable for $1000.00 a month then?  Can you enlighten me?   

I get a few questions almost every month about disability in my Family Service e-mail and usually send them the links that I have found, but I've never really educated myself as to the rules & eligability requirements.

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Yes there is SSI,SSDI,SSA,Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or I used SSI for example, still alot of cheese under any government relief program. You dont know me so I will not take offense, I am fairly well versed on each of these programs. I am glad for you. I just question, as a society can we afford this.Dont get me started on medicare/medicaid. I have been researching these programs as an advocate for others for a while now.   
  I found that if you contact your Senator for help with any of these programs, they have staff in place just to handle inquiries regarding SSDI,SSI,SSR and others for medicare/medicaid. That tells me there is a problem. When standard agency protocol is to deny the applicant for resubmittal regardless of the situation,something is wrong. Dealing with the SSA is like working with the Gestapo. They give no information that is helpful and just want you to answer questions,with no explanation on their end, throw in a threat or two regarding truthful statements, and sign zee papers. Then they hit the regs with the intent of minimizing the impact of the claim financially to the government, regardless of the real situation.
Others seemingly are blessed with thousands of dollars from these programs, after little review,with minimal loss of functional capacity.   
  Linda these programs are individually intricate and have been revised legislatively over the years to the extent it takes a degree is human services to wade through them.   of course you know that. I hate it for you, handling all of those requests for infomation.
the bb

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You're new here so you probabably don't know our good friend Johnny who posts quite often.  He's a truck driver also.  I can't speak for him but he has mentioned several times his routine when he gets hit while on the road.  There's almost always a small window of time to pull over.

Hopefully Johnny will see this and weigh in and maybe help explain through his own experience, how he coped.

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    O.k., I am still not understanding why because you have CH, your daughters get paid 1000.00 each per month.  If you were totally disabled by, lets say...a stroke where you could not work at all, I understand where you, could recieve SSI or SSA to help you out.  But your children also?  And for CH?

  BTW...are you chronic or episodic?

I am truly hoping you or John BB can 'splain' this to me.  I mean no disrespect here.  I really want to know this stuff.  Maybe I can help others with this info.

Just Wow.

I was just asking,  because like I said...I do not understand things like this. I was trying to understand because  ...I get questions all the time which I don't know the answers to.  I had hoped to get informed.

If you want to delete everything you said, that's your perogative of course, but it does beg a question of why you'd want to do that.

Thanks Joe and Jimi, it's been a pleasure. -Chris