(was) bad day (NOW) SSDI and being denied or approved

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I was also approved the first time. I had a phone interview and before we hung up she told me how much I would get and on what date each month. I was floored and asked her if she really meant I was approved. She said I was but I would get a letter as a formality. I still thought it was a trick of some sort until I got that letter several weeks later. I used the same seminar video we have in our lending library when I filled out my papers and I sent copies of all of my records, reports, lab results and some examples of my problems with numbers and memory and how it affected my job performance. I know they say you do not need to send your records because Social Security will get them themselves but I sent it

anyway. I also ask my doctors for copies of the forms they sent in to SSDI and got them. Then I knew exactly what they said. The interviewer commented on the records and told me it helped although she qualified it by saying they would have to request the records themselves. I said I knew that but I wanted to send them anyway. It must have worked since I was approved on the phone, huh? Sharon If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have. - Gerald Ford Re: bad day sorry~ just need to vent Akiba.. Well thanks for the bout of paranoia!!!! ROFLMAO... Now I got to obsess once again about WHAT exactly is in my medical records, that allowed my disability to be approved the first time around?? hmmm... LOL Actually I think it might really have had more to do with the time of year that I filed, and when it came up for approval or denial. I'm betting that there is only a certain number of approvals that can go out, and at the beginning of the year there are more to hand-out rather than fight with.. once they run out of freebies [freebies just being a loose term here, not meaning that approvals aren't deserved], everyone gets denied? Wouldn't surprise me in the least.. Justify the overtime needed to complete all the denials? Take Care |)onna Akiba Michels wrote: > > Ok, slow down, deep breath...they ALWAYS deny you the >

first time, ALWAYS, so just go through the appeal > process, and barrage them with paperwork (every piece > of which YOU KEEP A COPY) Send them every piece of > paper from every Dr you can get your mitts on. Ask > your Dr's to write letters telling them you cannot > work and why...and, again, I cannot stress this > enough, KEEP A COPY. Now, you ask, WHY do I say that? > Easy...because when I went in for my appeal after my > second denial, when I finally got to see a judge, he > had not seen a scrap of it! He did not even KNOW I > have MS!!! I went in with my walking staff in one hand > and a thick sheaf of papers and x-ray/MRI films in the > other. And walked out with SSI. It all took a year but > I got it. > Good luck, don't stress, and know you're not alone. > Hugs > Akiba

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