Hello

I filed an initial claim for disability. Then I filled out and returned a huge packet of papers concerning my health, what I can or can not do, etc. I mailed those back this past week.

What happens next? Do I just sit and wait to hear from Disability?

Also, what do I do as I continue to see doctors? Do I need to keep sending in updates?


Thank you for any wisdom here
reach

After i sent my paperwork back, the sent me a letter to see one of their doctors.

Then after I saw their doc a couple weeks later i got my denial letter, then I sent in for my reconsideration, few months later i was approved.
good luck...

They usually get reports from your doctor, but keep seeing them.
But you will prolly need to see theirs next.

Hello Aunt Duci

Thanks for the response.

I figure I would probably be told I would have to see one of their doctors. Thinking a psychiatrist also as depression is included in my claim. I just can't seem to get a handle on the timeframes and stuff like that. What I would like is a list with like #1, #2, #3, etc. Chuckles. What I get instead are long paragraphs in huge packets of paper!

When you sent in for reconsideration, what had changed? Anything? I mean, if I am denied, what the heck could I posibly share with them that I haven't already???

Okay, okay. I am going to stop projecting and just see what happens. I will wait for a letter instructing me to see a doctor.

Hey, thanks for the time to share with me. Much appreciated.

With eyeballs rolling
reach

I went to their doc(psychiatrist)and it wasnt very long after I got my letter.

I dont think anything was different from my initial application except time had passed..

I think if would have been off of work longer then I would have gotten it the first time around.
Im not sure, I do know on my first denial letter they didnt even have documets from my main 2 doctors, but from ones i seen years ago.

That ticked me off a little.(ok a lot)

So maybe they got a respnse from my other docs for the reconsideration.

Alot of states I think dont have a reconsideration phase like we do here in Indiana, mine they just went over my initial application, other states thats when you face a judge.

And if i remember correctly, they sent a letter to my therapist first to evaluate me, then i had to see their doctor.
you think i would remember it clearly since it was just a few months ago..lol.

But what I did differently after my denial was PRAY..lol..
and quit worrying.
I asked the Lord to let me receive it in Jan.
And he did. My paperwork says Jan 28th.
I know that may seem crazy, and my family was freaking out becuz i wasnt a nervous wreck, they were doing the worrying for me i guess.

but right when all my funds were gone, i opened my mail and there was my letter of award.
my family was shocked, and i dont think i blinked for a week.
now im waiting on my back pay, only for dec and jan...but its something.

So I dont know exactly what happened, All I do know is I prayed for whoever came in contact with my paperwork that God will open their eyes and see what the last person didnt.

And instead of praying in my head, I got on my knees every night and thanked God for giving it to me, and by the end of the week It was awarded.
I still get on my knees and pray, just to thank him cuz it is such a blessing!

Good Luck to you! :angel:

Auntduci

Tonight you have done me a world of good, Friend, and I thank you. I am a believer also and am going to put it right their in God's hands. I have done my part, I have been honest about it and will ask God's presence in what the outcome is. I think the secular, worldly business of it all caught me unaware and led me to easily forget where my real strength lay. He is seen me through things a lot more trying than this for sure.

It is a time of change in my life and disabilty happens to be a part of it. I need to not let the workings of it consume my thoughts, huh?

Okay. Be well. I will post when something does occur.

Until then,
and with hope always
reach

Oh your reply made me smile.

Thats how I realized I wasnt fully giving it to the Lord, I was still coming on sites like this looking for answers, like what else i can do to help my claim..etc..

I had to stop coming on here, and well thinking about it all together becuz God said your still trying to do it by yourself, it was hard relying on him, but at the same time easy.

But i come on here now to encourage people, and help when i can.
I will remember you in prayer, what god did for me he can do for you too!
:angel: