Legal Advice
the lawyer advised me to apply on my own because she thinks that as long as my pdoc’s and therapist’s reports comprehensively support why i qualify for disability, she doesn’t think i’ll need a lawyer. she said to expect to be denied, then appeal (timely), then appeal again if i have to. if i’m denied a third time, then i’ll have to go to a hearing, and that’s when she said to retain a lawyer. otherwise, she didn’t want to take our money unnecessarily. go figure. clearly, she did not go to the same law school as Alan Shore.
the first thing i need to do is call the Social Security office and ask if i need to come in to apply, or if i can do it by phone. the lawyer said that i will need the exact dates of my hospitalizations these past two years, and that there will be a ton of paperwork. all this sounds overwhelming to me, but it can’t be any more difficult than getting grad school application matierals together. right?
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i didn’t use a lawyer. was denied, forced to re-apply by my LTD(job) and was then approved. I never went in… got papers in the mail… had to have a friend fill in the questions because i was so depressed i couldn’t pick up a pencil. then they called me on the phone, once, to tell me I qualified. It was just slightly time consuming(3 months?) but virtually painless process. Good Luck!!
October 29, 2005 1:39 am