I am living alone/single room in a facility for people on SSI with schizophrenia. I am hopeful that my payments increase. If I am owed backpay how do I know when it will come shouldn’t I have gotten it by now I have had SSI since the beginning of this year. My rent is over half my SSI and I can barely afford food at the end of the month even on SNAP.
If this organization is my payee can I count on them to advocate? Or should I find some kind of legal representative who will truly advocate for me…
They made me sign over my rights to payee status just to live here…is that typical?
I believe you mean the difference between retroactive payments and backpay. Backpay is the amount I am awarded from the date I applied I believe February 2022. I found the answer online its 6 months from the day I received my first payment so like June or July and in installments I dont get a lump sum it will be less than a 3rd of it, and I dont think it goes against the asset limit of $2000 a month. I wonder why its 6 months apart.
Im going to try to get onto PASS or find out about that, to acheive a work goal. Im going to try this interview to see if I can find a part time job or they are going to place me in an internship to try to acheive a skill set. Im on SSI more so based on limited income and disability than age and Im hopeful that I wont have to be on it forever. I’m hopeful I will always be able to receive it, with all the inflation and economic uncertainty----but my main goal has always been to be able to be independant of gov support.
True. Being approved has helped me I feel like my mental health is slowly improving, or at least Im trying…I have to take a 2 month internship to prove I can even handle being in the work place I dont know if I am self-sabatoging by doing the intake interview…if i am doing volunteer or some kind of daily activity it will improve structure and it will prevent me from backpeddling into delusional or magical thinking…my physical health needs to improve too. I have heart issues now. I can barely handle anything stressful. I can be calm under pressure, but i dont want it to unravel me.