my friend hooked us up with who he used to get disability and said it took them three months…Angie has an ongoing appeal to her disability so I am hoping this will do the trick !! it would be life changing if she gets it. send vibes or prayers.
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Sending good vibes your way @jukebox
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Best of luck 
with it all!
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It took me years to get SSDI. The good thing about it in the US , is not only do you get the monthly payment, but you can get backpay from the time you initially applied.
I don’t know if she is working on getting SSDI or SSI, and I know little about SSI, so I don’t know if its the same circumstances.
I went for years with no steady income after psychosis and losing jobs, sometimes making money where I could here and there. I actually thought it was my religious duty to collect pop cans for awhile, so I would ride all around town on my bike, going through dumpsters and garbage cans to make money from the deposit. I would spend most of the day on this and usually made more than you would think. Then, because I was psychotic, I would give most of it away to religious charities or the homeless and such, because I thought it was my duty.
Anyway, I’m getting long winded now. The point is, there was a pretty significant windfall of back pay when I finally did get on SSDI.
Good luck.
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Good luck man… keep us updated.
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You earned it. You worked. I’m sorry you had it rough.
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Yeah, my old roommate got a back payment check for $25,000. He bought two cars, the best Craftsman tool box and filled it with tools and all kinds of radio controlled airplane models. I guess money doesn’t buy happiness because he ended up committing suicide.
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UK person here. I guess I have always been fortunate. Never had any problems obtaining benefits here in England. I started getting benefits when I was 17 years old and I’m now 38 and in that time only been to one assessment, and in that assessment they said they would obviously see I was severely disabled and disability benefits would remain the same. That was 2018.
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Good luck with the appeal.
Courts stress me so I hope that you guys can handle it smoothly.
Why was she denied initially? Does she also have sz?
Im lucky I got my ssdi right after applying. I worked right up to getting it for over 20 years. Ssdi has been a blessing.
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@Jonathan2 she has severe depression and a very bad back…
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