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To educated,trained and experienced to get Social Security Disability in US

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Lucyred
Lucyred

This is what my 1st denial was from Social Security and it doesn't make any sense when it comes to pain, hurting not being able to function. Today I had enough energy to make some homemade chocolate chip cookies and I was exhausted and hurting so bad afterwards. Tell me how I can work!! This disease has progressed so much just in the last year! I only have 2 more years before I can collect Social Security anyways but I'm 60 and have worked for 42 years, I haven't been leaning on any kind of system. I collected unemployment over a year ago and I was determined to go back to work even with the pain and I lucked out having a abusive boss and only lasted 6 months and it made the fibromyalgia go double in pain. Since then nothing has changed, just getting worse. So per my title it doesn't matter if you have pain!! Now I have to appeal and I feel so tired of fighting.

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  • tiswas24537
    tiswas24537 Lucyred

    Posted

    i am excatly the same hun i am 55 and have had fibro for about 10 yrs

    i make a cake taking 25 mins then i knackered for the rest of the day .

    infact i make sponges now simply because they can be beaten with an electric whisk

    where a cake has to have the flour  stired and folded in which by the end of it my arm is aching so bad i could cry .how the hell am i supposed to work .as besides from the pain ,i keep falling a eeksleep even when standing up .

  • christine26761
    christine26761 Lucyred

    Posted

    Just doesn't make sense at all does it? I'm in Australia and. It just isn't like that..thank goodness..although I was medically retired from a government job and I have a really good superannuation pension..better than most as I laid tax on it going in there fire I don't have to pay tax on it now..it's also CPI Indexed..some people say I'm lucky...well don't know about that one.,would loved to not have these health issues at all..really feeling for you..it's times like these that it's just soooo hard to be positive and strong..:-(. xx hope it all works out for you soon..
  • tiswas24537
    tiswas24537 Lucyred

    Posted

    they have to fail 40% of the claims to get there bonus from the goverment 

    remember its a buisness now sorting out claims .the more people they get of bennefit

    the more the bonus they get . mad

    a poor lad with Aspergers like my son starved himself to death after his bennefit was cut ,and theres many more such cases .the goverment dont care about these people only about cutting benefits .sad

    • Lucyred
      Lucyred tiswas24537

      Posted

      That makes me sick, have them be in the position you are in and see what you go through. I just hate big business and numbers, just thinking how much that hurts others. How selfish because they want money in their pocket!!
    • tiswas24537
      tiswas24537 Lucyred

      Posted

      they want the votes in the election in may , coming down hard on people like us gets them votes of the middle classes rolleyes people who feel hard done by, working to pay taxes to help people less fortunate than them self who are a drain on the system mad the goverments words not mine. these people forget how much the big banks bosses got in massive payouts for costing us a fortune in the crash . wink so they take it back from people who can least afford to loose it .and who are in great need.sad
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