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SarahL said:
Oh I should add some helpful advice: keep all records, everything, every piece of paper, even notes on phone calls and meetings. The process of application is all about documentation. SS will very likely ultimately want records from every place you can think of and then some, in most cases they will get the records themselves, anything you can do to stay organized is very helpful also.

If you can, get yourself a file cabinet or notebooks or file folders, browse around in the home office supply section of a store and get what appeals to you.

Being organized will help diminish some of the overwhelm possible with this journey.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> best advice ever!!

seriously Leslie.........this is very true. document EVERYTHING and find whatever way works for you to organize your papers.

we had a massive portfolio that was crammed full of copies of everything submitted to them, copies of any charts or notes from professionals, handwritten notes with times and dates of phone interactions with SocSec officials, etc.

document document document......they'll try to bury you with paper......do it to them!!

again, good luck and keep at this.