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By: Social Security Disability Claim Denied? Hire a Lawyer | Bipolar Beat

Social Security Disability Claim Denied? Hire a Lawyer | Bipolar Beat — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:45:59 +0000

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By: darcey

darcey — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:22:07 +0000

can you get disabilty for when you applied befor now

By: David Bransford MD

David Bransford MD — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:45:47 +0000

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By: Starcher

Starcher — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:03:20 +0000

When I applied for disability benefits, I was in a homeless shelter and with a state-paid mental health management system, after having been in the hospital for a month. I couldn’t work to save my life, obviously, and I had no income or reserves from anywhere. 5 months after applying, the first try, I got approved. There were people in the same situation as me who had applied twice and sought appeals, with lawyers, and were still waiting. I don’t know how I got it; maybe the teenage history of hospitalization or the unemployment insurance after losing work from depression prior to my homelessness had something to do with it. Maybe they flip a coin, who knows.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:38:26 +0000

Is it any easier to get disability benefits after filing the first time, if you have not worked in a year? How do you prove that in that year you were unable to work due to the disability?

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:01:11 +0000

In my last job, I met two people that told me that it is hell trying to apply for disability benefits. “Everyone, regardless of disability, gets denied on the first go around.” For one of my former colleagues whose wife has multiple sclerosis, has been battling the social security office for 5 years and counting. They just keep denying her saying that she does not have multiple sclerosis.