Comments on: Disability Benefits Resources

FYI: Information About Filing For Social Security Disability Benefits

[sostressed]

It is so bad to feel so scared to post anything, as waiting for disability hearing and afraid to say anything....but ...didn''t see this broadcast and daughter called to tell me about it next day...5 minutes after I read scanned this article, my long term rep called me to tell me that they spoke w/ my doc and they released me to go to work...I told him basically I wanted my doctor to tell me this and he said didn''t matter what my doc or docs said, that they have their standards and if they say I can work a job somewhere in USA then they are the ones that decide...this company has kept me so stressed and upset for 2 years, I wish my company had never had them...they bully and talk down to you and make you so weak...and require to keep your benefits that you talk to them or go to their docs(which you know how that works,....same as SS docs...they don''t care). God knows, that I do understand we have thousands of people w/disabilities waiting, and dying...and worse even than my health problems,but that doesn''t make it any easier or my problems any less....Please someone stop Long term people from being able to legally harrass those of us that are fighting to exist....other than dying off, that''s my option as far as they care.

P.S. My doctor office did not tell them they released me, just the opposite and she would not release me to go to work and doesn''t feel there is any job discription out there that I can work.

[mjmouser]

I think that it is incredible that CBS''s report has gained some political attention. I forwarded the link to my congressional representatives along with my personal story---I HOPE EVERYONE ELSE WILL DO THE SAME!!!! Turn the pressure up and perhaps the system will change!!

[iluvgod7]

I am afraid to post how doctors and others have harmed me. I am also afraid to describe everything that is happening to me because I am afraid Social Security will deny me benefits in my reconsideration phase as every past time I have reported everything that is happening to me, people I report to make things harder on me and my family cannot handle the stress my family is being put through. I am also afraid to discuss because I have reported to many people and no one will provide me with any protective services.

Please anybody out there, please reply to my post and identify that you are responding back to me by saying "YOU ARE REPLYING TO: " iluvgod7 " " and provide me with protective services or direct me to someone so I will be safe and get help with everything that is happening to me.

I also need medical care and I am suffering with life threatening conditions.

I also need help in getting my social security disablility benefits as I am disabled and cannot work and haven''t for years now and I have a wife and a young child.

Everyone, please respond to my " iluvgod7 " post and when I am made safe and protected to report things, I will inform you of everthing that is happening to me which can happen to you. If I can get more voices along with mine, maybe people will listen to and act and protect you, me, and everyone.

Please respond back to me. I want everything that is happening to me to stop and I don''t want anything that is happening to me to happen to you.

[sirduke1957]

Why is it that people who really need the Disability Can''t get it but when some people who are claiming They have a hard time remembering sometimes their own Name can get the Disability and then go and get a Masters degree from College and Disability pays for It? Or some people get the Disability their spouses Make really good money and the couple can buy a House worth about (three hundred thousand dollars) It Sickens me to hear that nothing is done to prevent This from happening. I have a heart condition twice In the hospital having surgery and was turned down after the hospital in which I was at filed for me The Disability. This last August of 2007 I had a minor Stroke. In Septemember I once again filed for the Disability hopeing this time I can get it. I am Waiting for a reply.

[diane911]

As a follow up to this story check out how many children receive SSI for a learning disability. School cost nothing yet these kids get a check every month for the parents to live on

[bessie1952]

I AM GOING BLIND ALREADY LOST ALL BUT 4% VISION IN MY RIGHT EYE NOW ALL I HAVE IS BLURRY VISION I APPLIED LAST OCT,3 2006 THEY TOLD ME THERE WERE JOBS THAT I STILL CAN APPLY FOR I I COULDNOT DO THE JOB I WORKED FOR 7 YRS AT WHAT MAKES THEM THINK I CAN STILL WORK A JOB AND SEE WHAT I AM DOING I TURNED MY DRIVERS LIC IN BECAUSE I CANNOT SEE TO DRIVE SO I REAPPLIED 3 WKS AGO NOW THEY SAY IT HAS TO BE EVAUATED ON MY JOB HISTORY 3 DAYS AGO I HAD TO WRITE A 15 PAGE WORK HISTORY ON THE JOBS I HAD IN THE LAST 15 YRS I HAVE WKED SINCE AGE 15 AND ALWAYS PAID SS TAXES WHERE DID IT GO TO WHO GOT IT I KNOW SOMEONE IN FL THAT GOT FOR HAVING DIARRIEA THEY PD HER 6 YRS BACK I FELL EVERYONES PAIN THAT IS SICK WITH ILLNESS BLINDNESS BEING CRIPPLED I HAVE FELT IT SINCE THE DAY MY EYE DR TOLD ME THERES NOTHING ELSE TO BE DONE I CANNOT GET INSURANCE BECAUSE OF MY EYES SO YES ITS TIME WE GOT HELP ONE DAY THOSE WHO MISTREAT THE ONES WHO REALLY NEED IT OR DESERVES IT WILL FILL OUR PAIN GRIEF HURT HUMILITY GOD BLESS ALL THOSE WHO HAVE STEPPED UP FOR US THANK YOU SHARON FROM NC [e-mail]

[kitten1231-2009]

My brother has been very ill with diabetes for years now. He weighs around 90 pds. I have been advocating
for him to recieve his SSDI. It is really sad when a disability attorney cannot do anything to make the process go faster. These people are having to live on the streets, live with family, no money for medicines which their condition gets worse. Let''s look at the people recieving SSDI and living a normal life. Sitting in libraries on chat rooms while other people are deceased before they get thier SS. Now I see a problem with that.

[thomasann-2009]

I too was denied. I have arthritis in my neck and back and right hand, a ruptured disc in my back, degenerative disc disease and fibromyalgia. I appealed in Dec. 2006 and still have not been appointed to a judge. To the man that says fibro is a crock, I wish you could live with the debilitating pain for just one day to see what it is like. Combine it with the other health problems, including HBP and you would have one miserable life. I also have severe ddepression, but not until I started with the other sicknesses and could no longer work. This system needs to be changed.

[peaches1957-2009]

My husband worked as a firefighter and paramedic for 27 years. When he had his spine crushed and rebuilt with titanium and cadaver''s bones he went back to work. When he had his hip crushed and had to wait a year for surgery, he ended up in constant pain and on morphine three times a day with a nerve pain blocker at night. Three years later, neither SC Worker''s Comp nor SS can decide if he is disabled, in spite of six doctors who have declared him so. It is collusion, pure and simple between the business lobbyists, the Workers Comp, and Social Security to give our money away to drug addicts and alcoholics while letting decent hardworking people, who become crippled while working, suffer and die broke and in pain.

[clemsonmom58]

Just another reason to push the denial and retain a lawyer? The lawyer sent forms with questions.....all of the SAME questions that have been answered three times previously. Why is his word better than my own? It''s my medical history, who better to explain it than myself? Well, they say that I can communicate with others so I''m NOT disabled. If I communicate so well, where did they get that I was a waitress? I will probably die waiting as the stress of the fight is cause for yet more medication and doctor''s visits that I cannot continue to pay.