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shortandcute · Sep 04, 2014 at 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Rose76

It's not true that everyone gets denied the first time. I got approved right away, as have others here at PC.

It doesn't sound to me like you are on SSI. What help you've gotten has been public assistance, which is traditional welfare provided by your state. An application for SSDI is, automatically, an application for SSI, also. You were denied for both. One reason for you getting denied was probably that you being completely disabled was not expected to last all that long, which is how it did turn out. Not that you have to be permanently disabled to get approved, but there has to be the expectation of disability lasting at least a certain length of time. I forget what that length of time is.

The other thing working against you getting approved is that you are quite young. They figure that increases the odds that you would either recover, or find a way to adapt that allows you to succeed in the workplace.

I'm glad you are doing so much better now.

No one said that everyone gets denied the first time, it was more like 90% (100% would be everyone). And even when someone fits all the criteria, they can still get denied several times. They will find every excuse in the book to deny someone--even if it means they have to lie, which is what the judge did in my case. When I got the "notice of unfavorable decision," it was full of lies; she was accusing me of saying all kinds of things I never said and twisted a lot of my words around, and even claimed certain things were on my medical records that I know were not. I had to read it over several times to make sure I was reading it correctly, and even thought she got my case mixed up with someone else's. Even my attorney was shocked because the things the judge put in the notice were so bizarre. I suggest you do some research and you will find that your case is the exception, not the rule.