To Kate.. on the SSDI eligibility dates...

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Kate,

What my buddy at Social Security replied.. wasn't quite in English..

LOL.. this is what he replied:

5 calendar mth waiting period so, onset date 01/02/06, waiting period

02-06/06, eligible 07/06 payable 0806.

My interpretation of that.. if date of disability is January

2, 2006, five month waiting period.. would be from February 2, 2006 to

June 2, 2006.. Eligible for benefits July 2, 2006 and those would be

paid August 2006.. and thereafter.. accumulating to approval date.. and

then paid in a lump sum..

Now that was for SSDI.. a person having worked enough quarters in their

lifetime to draw early on what they would be drawing had they made it

to retirement age and then started to draw..

SSI works differently.. that is a need based program, and comes out of

different coffers for payment..

Ssi- onset date 01/02/06, 01/06 is the eligibility mth, get Medicaid,

02/06 payable and thereafter

Onset of disability occurs January 2, 2006, person is

eligible in January of 2006 and payments would start February 2006..

Medicaid would have started in January...

It's all confusing... at least to me.. for right now.. hopefully I will

get the job or A job that I applied for, with Social Security, and will

learn all of this good stuff in the process of training for the job...

HUGS

|)onna