I just want to say thank you.. thank you...thank you !! This board has been very helpful, informative and most of all supportive for me in my long stressfull journey. You have all been like 'true understanding friends ' to me. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for all the very usefull advice and most of all for just 'being my friend' here. I applied for SS, got denied, appealed, waited for court date, got approved, waited for letter of approval, waited for first check,waited for backpay and then finally backpay and first check for my dependant child. - I can honestly say this month is the first month I can actually breathe since first applying in Jan of 2005. I do consider myself very fortunate for being approved, knowing how so many others of you have been on this long road and are still waiting and waiting. My journey finally ended this month when I finally received my dependant child's backpay. I now don't have to wait and worry about another thing from the very slow paced SS system. It's a very hard thing to swallow knowing you are found 'disabled'. I know I will never be the same person I was say 4 years ago but knowing that I can finally help once again with my families finances makes me feel a little less so dependant. We are finally now trying to dig ourselves back out of deep deep debts but we can at least now try. I am sending my prayers to all of you so that someday your fully favorable will come too (I know so many of you deserve it so much). If there is ever ANYTHING I can answer for you or perhaps just lend an ear to any of you PLEASE PLEASE let me know. I would be more than happy to help or maybe just be a friend to any of you. Remember dont' give up, they may try to make you feel like you should ,but don't give up the fight, it is something you deserve. Thank you all again for letting me vent over the months, thanks for info I have learned here but most of all thank you for being my 'friend'....take -care, :angel:

Hi Quenee:
I went on Tuesday for my hearing. My lawyer says it went well. She said it was good that there wa sno vocational expercent there. We are waiting for a document that the judge said was not sighed. He said he was going to send this to my lawyer and have her figure out what it is and get it signed and sent back
I think I will be approved I so hope so, but I will just have to wait. The judge is giving the lawyer thirty days to get the doc thing figured out. I guess I will have to wait and wait until I get the decision.

I really am so sick of this waiting. This has been going on for three years. The judge keep saying that he wanted to verify that my disability date was in 2005. Is this good. If I get approved will I get back pay from that date? I have two children will they get money? will they get back pay?

I am so confused at how this all works. If you can help it would be greatly appreciated.
Jeane

Hi bellablue2 .....oh I know very well how hard all the waiting is. I am glad your hearing went well. Of course if there is a signature missing on a report that will have to be addressed right away. Then you mentioned they want to know if that is the actual date of your onset. They are making sure you didn't work since you were diagnosed and they are making sure your onset date is when the disablility you are now filing for is on that date. That does sound rather good. They did make me change my onset date by 2 months because I did work partially during one month and I just gave up the other month, I didn't want to risk anything. Yes if you get approved and you have children that live with you and they are still in grades K-12 they as well will be entitled to dependant disability. They as well will receive a backpay. The check is in your name and theirs. It's sole purpose is for the expenses of raising a child. It is roughly half the amount you get. I hope I was able to answer some questions for you. Hang in there and don't give up. take-care,:angel:

I agree with Queenneee about the good news. It certainly sounds as if the Judge had made up his mind and was trying to figure out the right date.

Re: your back pay, if approved, yours will come first, then the childrens....separated by a couple of months. They work on the original "applicant" first (which is you), then dependents. You'd think they could do it all at once, but not SS!

One tip for you....You'll have to pay back taxes on all the back pay....So don't spend it all. The IRS has rules for back pay and how to figure out the taxes on a lump sum distribution. There is a form you fill out.

Good luck, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Ex

here's a funny thing....... my SS backpay and check go into my direct deposit. When I was waiting for my dependants child's backpay I kept watching daily in my checking account for it to be deposited. NOPE, ... I received the check in the mail. The reason for this my banker told me is you have to set up a total separate account for you and your child and the money has to first go through that , then you can withdraw it and deposit into your account....also just a note , when I asked my accountant about my child's backpay she said I will not have to have taxes withdrawn on the monthly check or pay taxes on the backpay .. something about it being to support the child. She said it won't effect my taxes next year. This is just all from my whole experience so far............take-care, :angel:

Hi Queneeee, Some days I think I understand all this SS stuff, then there are days like today when I can't make sense out of anything. This is the story...
Went to my attorney 22/25, he said if I signed an amendment to my onset date, "that's it". . . I repeated it to him. . . I said, "you mean, that's it, THAT'S IT". . . he said yes. He went so far to say when I would get my medicare (12/08). That was the end of Feb. I still haven't rec'd anything by mail or heard from him. I called today and his paralegal said that are still "talking about it" and that regardless of what happens, I should be coming up for a hearing anyday. I feel like, if I do have to go to a hearing why did I have to sign the avidavit? My disability started back in 04 and I amended to 06. I feel like I've been duped. My congressman's office said no, that the avidavit wouldn't matter. That if I wanted to say 04, I could. Please help me make sense out of nonsense. Thanks. Denise

Queene your a doll. Question? I told the judge that I have been trying to work and I got a job and only worked for a week. Is that going to effect the date they are going to start my disability?
Also you say that the check for my children comes in my name as well as their names. Do I have to let them know what the money is being spend on.

Ex: Your wonderful as well. It is so hard dealing with this stuff. I am getting my hopes and don't know what I will do it I get denied.
I am really amazed that SSD gives back pay that far.

I read that they only go back one year, and they minus five months. Then I have read on these boards they go back further. It is really confusing.
My lawyer said that the judge really wants to figure out when I first became disabled. I have been dealing with Bi-polar / depression for many years. In 2000 I have diagnosis of Depression. In 2005 I went to a Phy Doc who diagnosed me with Bi-polar. I guess that's why he keep saying 2005.

Any help understanding this would be so grateful
Love you all.....

You know I feel like if I get this back pay it will be like winning the lottery. O have such bad luck I just can't fathom getting a favorable decision no or less getting this back pay for me as well as for my two children

It just is like a dream to me. I have severe depression and sit in my room all day. Thank god my husband takes care of everything. Kids and all. He only works on weekends, but it's a forty hour weekend. My 14 year old daughter rhelps me take care of my ADHD son while my husband works.

It's just that my husband even says this can't go our way. My car just broke down 1400. to fix, well it is going to sit in my driveway. It's always something. My husbands Mom died he needs to travel there. MORE MONEY we don't have!!

Well I just want to say thanks for listening.

EX please keep praying for me because if I do get a favorable decision you all will hear a big scream of relief.

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