Posted by judy1 on March 5, 2004, at 11:54:13
In reply to Re: Need to talk about SSDI, posted by HappyGirl on March 4, 2004, at 14:18:51
that was interesting regarding age- i was in my early 30's when approved for SSDI and had been working fairly steadily during and after grad school. i have quite a history with my disorders- when i did apply i had just walked off my job and went into a hospital, i was severely suicidal (this had happened before but it was always short term disability). i know this type of situation can happen with other disorders so that's why i stressed the non-functioning state. if you simply cannot work because of symptoms and it is well documented (pdoc records, hospital, etc.) then it should be fairly straight forward to get benefits. my (then) pdoc had a lot of experience with filling out forms for SSD (i hadn't known that at the time but apparently it is important), and the attorney phoned me first and spoke to me at length before accepting my case. he has something like a 95% success rate- but then he only took cases he was ceratin of. i forgot to mention that there was a $4000 fee taken once i received my lump sum payment (that was the maximum)- in retrospect it was worth every dime since i literally just signed my name and that was it. have you consulted an attorney?- judy
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