My husband applied for ssdi in march of 09 we did alot of research and hired an attorney right out of the gate, my husband has been a union carpenter for over 30 years, in 2005 he was having problems with his neck and left arm,, found out he had spinal stenosis. He went thru the epi shots did not work, physical therapy was no change he even switched jobs and went into light maintance.
Now 4 years later after mri and nerve testing the neck problems he now also has a recessed disc and a bone spur along with the stenosis in c5,c6 it has gotten so bad he looses feeling in his left arm and he is left handed. His ortho dr was really pushing the surgery but after talking to numerous dr'sthey stated do not have the surgery.The dr for the dissabilty people also measured the muscle loss he has lost 2 inches of muscle in his left arm vs his right he also suffers from diabetsis and has bone spurs in his heels and they will not remove those due to the diabetsis, he also has severe sleep apena.
The lawyer called and stated the case was closed july 10 and had a tenative descision but the case was sent to san fransico for a federal review board we live in arizona and we should hear in 3 to 6 weeks. They said this was not uncommon it was called sampling to review the decision. My question has anyone had this happen to them??? Last week was the 6 week mark,,,
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The lawyer called and stated the case was closed july 10 and had a tenative descision but the case was sent to san fransico for a federal review board we live in arizona and we should hear in 3 to 6 weeks. They said this was not uncommon it was called sampling to review the decision. My question has anyone had this happen to them??? Last week was the 6 week mark,,,
Sounds as if SS has made a decision and for some reason, your case has been pulled (probably at random) for some type of "sampling review." I did a little bit of research for you and found something where they audit samples as "the objective was to assess the reliability of the Social Security Administration's (SSA) performance data used to measure the accuracy of disability decisions made by State Disability Determination Services (DDS)."
I don't have any personal experience with this, so I can't help you there. I will say though that 6 weeks is extremely quick and if you were to be awarded any type of benefits within a couple of months, you'd be very lucky. Not to be negative, but most take over a year....Sometimes two.
Hopefully, some others with experience in this area will chime in.
That sounds more like what the attorney said about the sampling she mentioned that in her message,, my husband has been off of work since oct 08, he can longer do union work due to the fact he is considered a liability. He is slowly loosing the feeling the his left arm, and he always looks down due to the fact he can not hold his head up. We knew there was a major problem when in feb he was changing out his transmission in his truck,, something he has done hundereds of times, my husband is a very big man, as he was holding on the tranny to bring it out of the truck he lost all feeling in his left arm and the tranny fell on his chest, he did not even have the strenght to lift the tranny off of his chest. It has been very hard on him, he loves to work around the house and to work on cars and he is finding he can longer do those things. He is in pain 24/7 and has massive headaches, but my husband would rather live with the pain then to take medication, he has tried it.
Hi there, I am very sorry that your husband is suffering and in so much pain.
I was denied the second time I applied for SSDI, however, I went ahead the second time and filled out the paper work for the reconsideration part . Knowing that I was not getting better, and having more serious problems . both medically and mentally. I did not have a attorney. I waited for what seemed like forever to hear back, but still nothing. I called the 1-800 number and was told that my claim was now approved , however it was in a different place, out of state being reviewed , again. however, this time it was others reviewing my claim that the DDS had made. I found out that they randomly select claims , and take them to be re -reviewed . I also was told that occasionalyl the decision can be overturned . S.S informed me that this would take a additional 3 months . not longer.
The approval letter came within the time frame, and it was fine . As long as your husband has not recieved a deniel letter, then his claim is still in the process of review. The waiting period is the most difficult.
Have not gotten a denial letter,, we have no idea what the descission is,, the lawyer that we hired is one of the best dissability lawyers in arizona. I use to work as an apt mananger in a low income section 48 property so i knew what the tenants were going thru with their dissability and i did not want to go thru that.. We were going to file in 2005 when he was first diganoised but we decided to have him switch occupations. That backfired it made his condition worse. I have heard story's about people filing and being denied 2 or 3 times until they hired an attorney so we went ahead and hired one right off the start. He has been a union man since he was 17 and he is 48 now, changing jobs was very hard on him but he knew he had to. So we shall see what happens..
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