SSDI questions

LouLou · Nov 29, 2007

thanks so much everyone. this has been very informative. julie, I'll email you.

i don't feel ready to make the jump to not working yet so maybe I need to look into figuring out how long I can work part time without jeopardizing my case. I've worked continuously the last 10 years so I don't want to hurt that.

also I need to know how much I would get. Anyone have any guidance here?

I didn't mean that Beth gives grants rather that she has a grant from a pharma co. to provide free legal counseling through her hotline.

LouLou · Nov 29, 2007

thanks so much everyone. this has been very informative. julie, I'll email you.

i don't feel ready to make the jump to not working yet so maybe I need to look into figuring out how long I can work part time without jeopardizing my case. I've worked continuously the last 10 years so I don't want to hurt that.

also I need to know how much I would get. Anyone have any guidance here?

I didn't mean that Beth gives grants rather that she has a grant from a pharma co. to provide free legal counseling through her hotline.

LouLou · Nov 29, 2007

thanks so much everyone. this has been very informative. julie, I'll email you.

i don't feel ready to make the jump to not working yet so maybe I need to look into figuring out how long I can work part time without jeopardizing my case. I've worked continuously the last 10 years so I don't want to hurt that.

also I need to know how much I would get. Anyone have any guidance here?

I didn't mean that Beth gives grants rather that she has a grant from a pharma co. to provide free legal counseling through her hotline.

LouLou · Nov 29, 2007

thanks so much everyone. this has been very informative. julie, I'll email you.

i don't feel ready to make the jump to not working yet so maybe I need to look into figuring out how long I can work part time without jeopardizing my case. I've worked continuously the last 10 years so I don't want to hurt that.

also I need to know how much I would get. Anyone have any guidance here?

I didn't mean that Beth gives grants rather that she has a grant from a pharma co. to provide free legal counseling through her hotline.

LouLou · Nov 29, 2007

thanks so much everyone. this has been very informative. julie, I'll email you.

i don't feel ready to make the jump to not working yet so maybe I need to look into figuring out how long I can work part time without jeopardizing my case. I've worked continuously the last 10 years so I don't want to hurt that.

also I need to know how much I would get. Anyone have any guidance here?

I didn't mean that Beth gives grants rather that she has a grant from a pharma co. to provide free legal counseling through her hotline.

Scarlett81 · Nov 29, 2007

I can't offer advice on this bc its been years since i was on it, and i don't remember, but I can tell u that after I got married SS made a huge error on my benefits and after receiving checks for old benefits that I was have to had earned from age 18-21, they sent me a letter saying that I owed them about 17,000 based on mistakes they had made.
I did tons of research and found that no one ever wins these cases against SS. I contacted Beth Suffian and with he help, we won. As I said, this is unheard of. So calling her would be worth it.
hugs

Scarlett81 · Nov 29, 2007

I can't offer advice on this bc its been years since i was on it, and i don't remember, but I can tell u that after I got married SS made a huge error on my benefits and after receiving checks for old benefits that I was have to had earned from age 18-21, they sent me a letter saying that I owed them about 17,000 based on mistakes they had made.
I did tons of research and found that no one ever wins these cases against SS. I contacted Beth Suffian and with he help, we won. As I said, this is unheard of. So calling her would be worth it.
hugs

Scarlett81 · Nov 29, 2007

I can't offer advice on this bc its been years since i was on it, and i don't remember, but I can tell u that after I got married SS made a huge error on my benefits and after receiving checks for old benefits that I was have to had earned from age 18-21, they sent me a letter saying that I owed them about 17,000 based on mistakes they had made.
I did tons of research and found that no one ever wins these cases against SS. I contacted Beth Suffian and with he help, we won. As I said, this is unheard of. So calling her would be worth it.
hugs

Scarlett81 · Nov 29, 2007

I can't offer advice on this bc its been years since i was on it, and i don't remember, but I can tell u that after I got married SS made a huge error on my benefits and after receiving checks for old benefits that I was have to had earned from age 18-21, they sent me a letter saying that I owed them about 17,000 based on mistakes they had made.
I did tons of research and found that no one ever wins these cases against SS. I contacted Beth Suffian and with he help, we won. As I said, this is unheard of. So calling her would be worth it.
hugs

Scarlett81 · Nov 29, 2007

I can't offer advice on this bc its been years since i was on it, and i don't remember, but I can tell u that after I got married SS made a huge error on my benefits and after receiving checks for old benefits that I was have to had earned from age 18-21, they sent me a letter saying that I owed them about 17,000 based on mistakes they had made.
I did tons of research and found that no one ever wins these cases against SS. I contacted Beth Suffian and with he help, we won. As I said, this is unheard of. So calling her would be worth it.
hugs

tara · Nov 29, 2007

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>LouLou</b></i>

1) Is the amount shown on my social security annual report under the designation of how much I'd get if I became disabled today the amount I'd receive if I applied and qualified for SSDI?

I'm not sure if it's the same as what's on the annual report or not. I think it's pretty close though. I worked full time for 5 years. It depends how much money you made while you were working. My monthly amount is $1,423. And the twins get half of that split between them. So they each get $356 per month. If I only had one child, that one child would receive the 50% payment to themselves ($712)

2) How ill do I need to be to qualify?

As I understand it, there are three ways to qualify.
1. You have two or more hospitalizations per year
2. You require a maintenance antibiotic like TOBI
3. Your FEV1 is low enough, for me the cutoff was about 1.62 Liters, if memory serves. Or about 60%.

3) How many of you have done it without the help a lawyer or only with the "free" help of Suffian from her grant to help cfers?

I tried (and was denied twice) on my own. I kept appealing and finally hired Beth. Her fee was 25% of all your back payments or $5,200 I believe. Can't remember exactly the amount. It took me two years almost to the day from my application date to my first check.

4) How much can I work on the books and still get my benefits? Is it dollars, hours, percent of original income or what?

I don't know how much you can work. Sorry.

5) What sort of continual monitoring of your finances do they perform?

We got a form that we had to fill out for the twins money this year. We had to tell them how much of what money went where. But not for myself, just for them. So I'm not sure what the monitoring is for the disabled person yet. I've been receiving my checks for about 15 months now.

6) Do you have to re-qualify each year or is it good for foreva'?

My agreement said I had to be re-evaluated after 3 years, which Beth said was unusual. That time hasn't come up yet, so I'm not sure how that goes.

7) I've been advised by someone on here not to work part-time for too long because it can screw your SSDI benefit amount because of the 10 year look back. Any experience here?

No experience from me here. Sorry.

8) Anyone get SSDI with minimal to no IV therapy?

this past year, since I've received the disability benefits has been rough for me. But like I said above, if you're on TOBI or something similar you should qualify.

Any help would be appreciated. We are in the process of making a move for my husband's career and we are trying to figure out how much house we can afford. I want to work out the numbers of what it would be like if we lost my income from working but instead had my SSDI income. I'm maintaining my health but I can see that I will jump the "working full time" ship before it starts to sink. It's just not worth it especially because 1) I have a hubby with a decent salary 2) I have a baby (and hubby) to maintain a certain level of health and live for 3) I've heard I'm at the max amount that I can get for SSDI with my current income...why work part time if it will forever lower the amount I can get for free!!</end quote></div>

Hope this helps. Good luck.

tara · Nov 29, 2007

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>LouLou</b></i>

1) Is the amount shown on my social security annual report under the designation of how much I'd get if I became disabled today the amount I'd receive if I applied and qualified for SSDI?

I'm not sure if it's the same as what's on the annual report or not. I think it's pretty close though. I worked full time for 5 years. It depends how much money you made while you were working. My monthly amount is $1,423. And the twins get half of that split between them. So they each get $356 per month. If I only had one child, that one child would receive the 50% payment to themselves ($712)

2) How ill do I need to be to qualify?

As I understand it, there are three ways to qualify.
1. You have two or more hospitalizations per year
2. You require a maintenance antibiotic like TOBI
3. Your FEV1 is low enough, for me the cutoff was about 1.62 Liters, if memory serves. Or about 60%.

3) How many of you have done it without the help a lawyer or only with the "free" help of Suffian from her grant to help cfers?

I tried (and was denied twice) on my own. I kept appealing and finally hired Beth. Her fee was 25% of all your back payments or $5,200 I believe. Can't remember exactly the amount. It took me two years almost to the day from my application date to my first check.

4) How much can I work on the books and still get my benefits? Is it dollars, hours, percent of original income or what?

I don't know how much you can work. Sorry.

5) What sort of continual monitoring of your finances do they perform?

We got a form that we had to fill out for the twins money this year. We had to tell them how much of what money went where. But not for myself, just for them. So I'm not sure what the monitoring is for the disabled person yet. I've been receiving my checks for about 15 months now.

6) Do you have to re-qualify each year or is it good for foreva'?

My agreement said I had to be re-evaluated after 3 years, which Beth said was unusual. That time hasn't come up yet, so I'm not sure how that goes.

7) I've been advised by someone on here not to work part-time for too long because it can screw your SSDI benefit amount because of the 10 year look back. Any experience here?

No experience from me here. Sorry.

8) Anyone get SSDI with minimal to no IV therapy?

this past year, since I've received the disability benefits has been rough for me. But like I said above, if you're on TOBI or something similar you should qualify.

Any help would be appreciated. We are in the process of making a move for my husband's career and we are trying to figure out how much house we can afford. I want to work out the numbers of what it would be like if we lost my income from working but instead had my SSDI income. I'm maintaining my health but I can see that I will jump the "working full time" ship before it starts to sink. It's just not worth it especially because 1) I have a hubby with a decent salary 2) I have a baby (and hubby) to maintain a certain level of health and live for 3) I've heard I'm at the max amount that I can get for SSDI with my current income...why work part time if it will forever lower the amount I can get for free!!</end quote></div>

Hope this helps. Good luck.

tara · Nov 29, 2007

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>LouLou</b></i>

1) Is the amount shown on my social security annual report under the designation of how much I'd get if I became disabled today the amount I'd receive if I applied and qualified for SSDI?

I'm not sure if it's the same as what's on the annual report or not. I think it's pretty close though. I worked full time for 5 years. It depends how much money you made while you were working. My monthly amount is $1,423. And the twins get half of that split between them. So they each get $356 per month. If I only had one child, that one child would receive the 50% payment to themselves ($712)

2) How ill do I need to be to qualify?

As I understand it, there are three ways to qualify.
1. You have two or more hospitalizations per year
2. You require a maintenance antibiotic like TOBI
3. Your FEV1 is low enough, for me the cutoff was about 1.62 Liters, if memory serves. Or about 60%.

3) How many of you have done it without the help a lawyer or only with the "free" help of Suffian from her grant to help cfers?

I tried (and was denied twice) on my own. I kept appealing and finally hired Beth. Her fee was 25% of all your back payments or $5,200 I believe. Can't remember exactly the amount. It took me two years almost to the day from my application date to my first check.

4) How much can I work on the books and still get my benefits? Is it dollars, hours, percent of original income or what?

I don't know how much you can work. Sorry.

5) What sort of continual monitoring of your finances do they perform?

We got a form that we had to fill out for the twins money this year. We had to tell them how much of what money went where. But not for myself, just for them. So I'm not sure what the monitoring is for the disabled person yet. I've been receiving my checks for about 15 months now.

6) Do you have to re-qualify each year or is it good for foreva'?

My agreement said I had to be re-evaluated after 3 years, which Beth said was unusual. That time hasn't come up yet, so I'm not sure how that goes.

7) I've been advised by someone on here not to work part-time for too long because it can screw your SSDI benefit amount because of the 10 year look back. Any experience here?

No experience from me here. Sorry.

8) Anyone get SSDI with minimal to no IV therapy?

this past year, since I've received the disability benefits has been rough for me. But like I said above, if you're on TOBI or something similar you should qualify.

Any help would be appreciated. We are in the process of making a move for my husband's career and we are trying to figure out how much house we can afford. I want to work out the numbers of what it would be like if we lost my income from working but instead had my SSDI income. I'm maintaining my health but I can see that I will jump the "working full time" ship before it starts to sink. It's just not worth it especially because 1) I have a hubby with a decent salary 2) I have a baby (and hubby) to maintain a certain level of health and live for 3) I've heard I'm at the max amount that I can get for SSDI with my current income...why work part time if it will forever lower the amount I can get for free!!</end quote></div>

Hope this helps. Good luck.

tara · Nov 29, 2007

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>LouLou</b></i>

1) Is the amount shown on my social security annual report under the designation of how much I'd get if I became disabled today the amount I'd receive if I applied and qualified for SSDI?

I'm not sure if it's the same as what's on the annual report or not. I think it's pretty close though. I worked full time for 5 years. It depends how much money you made while you were working. My monthly amount is $1,423. And the twins get half of that split between them. So they each get $356 per month. If I only had one child, that one child would receive the 50% payment to themselves ($712)

2) How ill do I need to be to qualify?

As I understand it, there are three ways to qualify.
1. You have two or more hospitalizations per year
2. You require a maintenance antibiotic like TOBI
3. Your FEV1 is low enough, for me the cutoff was about 1.62 Liters, if memory serves. Or about 60%.

3) How many of you have done it without the help a lawyer or only with the "free" help of Suffian from her grant to help cfers?

I tried (and was denied twice) on my own. I kept appealing and finally hired Beth. Her fee was 25% of all your back payments or $5,200 I believe. Can't remember exactly the amount. It took me two years almost to the day from my application date to my first check.

4) How much can I work on the books and still get my benefits? Is it dollars, hours, percent of original income or what?

I don't know how much you can work. Sorry.

5) What sort of continual monitoring of your finances do they perform?

We got a form that we had to fill out for the twins money this year. We had to tell them how much of what money went where. But not for myself, just for them. So I'm not sure what the monitoring is for the disabled person yet. I've been receiving my checks for about 15 months now.

6) Do you have to re-qualify each year or is it good for foreva'?

My agreement said I had to be re-evaluated after 3 years, which Beth said was unusual. That time hasn't come up yet, so I'm not sure how that goes.

7) I've been advised by someone on here not to work part-time for too long because it can screw your SSDI benefit amount because of the 10 year look back. Any experience here?

No experience from me here. Sorry.

8) Anyone get SSDI with minimal to no IV therapy?

this past year, since I've received the disability benefits has been rough for me. But like I said above, if you're on TOBI or something similar you should qualify.

Any help would be appreciated. We are in the process of making a move for my husband's career and we are trying to figure out how much house we can afford. I want to work out the numbers of what it would be like if we lost my income from working but instead had my SSDI income. I'm maintaining my health but I can see that I will jump the "working full time" ship before it starts to sink. It's just not worth it especially because 1) I have a hubby with a decent salary 2) I have a baby (and hubby) to maintain a certain level of health and live for 3) I've heard I'm at the max amount that I can get for SSDI with my current income...why work part time if it will forever lower the amount I can get for free!!</end quote>

Hope this helps. Good luck.

tara · Nov 29, 2007

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>LouLou</b></i>

1) Is the amount shown on my social security annual report under the designation of how much I'd get if I became disabled today the amount I'd receive if I applied and qualified for SSDI?

I'm not sure if it's the same as what's on the annual report or not. I think it's pretty close though. I worked full time for 5 years. It depends how much money you made while you were working. My monthly amount is $1,423. And the twins get half of that split between them. So they each get $356 per month. If I only had one child, that one child would receive the 50% payment to themselves ($712)

2) How ill do I need to be to qualify?

As I understand it, there are three ways to qualify.
1. You have two or more hospitalizations per year
2. You require a maintenance antibiotic like TOBI
3. Your FEV1 is low enough, for me the cutoff was about 1.62 Liters, if memory serves. Or about 60%.

3) How many of you have done it without the help a lawyer or only with the "free" help of Suffian from her grant to help cfers?

I tried (and was denied twice) on my own. I kept appealing and finally hired Beth. Her fee was 25% of all your back payments or $5,200 I believe. Can't remember exactly the amount. It took me two years almost to the day from my application date to my first check.

4) How much can I work on the books and still get my benefits? Is it dollars, hours, percent of original income or what?

I don't know how much you can work. Sorry.

5) What sort of continual monitoring of your finances do they perform?

We got a form that we had to fill out for the twins money this year. We had to tell them how much of what money went where. But not for myself, just for them. So I'm not sure what the monitoring is for the disabled person yet. I've been receiving my checks for about 15 months now.

6) Do you have to re-qualify each year or is it good for foreva'?

My agreement said I had to be re-evaluated after 3 years, which Beth said was unusual. That time hasn't come up yet, so I'm not sure how that goes.

7) I've been advised by someone on here not to work part-time for too long because it can screw your SSDI benefit amount because of the 10 year look back. Any experience here?

No experience from me here. Sorry.

8) Anyone get SSDI with minimal to no IV therapy?

this past year, since I've received the disability benefits has been rough for me. But like I said above, if you're on TOBI or something similar you should qualify.

Any help would be appreciated. We are in the process of making a move for my husband's career and we are trying to figure out how much house we can afford. I want to work out the numbers of what it would be like if we lost my income from working but instead had my SSDI income. I'm maintaining my health but I can see that I will jump the "working full time" ship before it starts to sink. It's just not worth it especially because 1) I have a hubby with a decent salary 2) I have a baby (and hubby) to maintain a certain level of health and live for 3) I've heard I'm at the max amount that I can get for SSDI with my current income...why work part time if it will forever lower the amount I can get for free!!</end quote>

Hope this helps. Good luck.

Bigwalt · Dec 1, 2007