Applying for Disability Pension in the USA

[SadCryingBunny]

Anybody here successful on getting on the disability in America? If you're truly suicidal and depressed, how are you surviving. I hear it's near impossible to get on even with self harm, depression bipolar unless you're in a wheelchair or something.

 

[Uncounted1846]

I applied and was denied because I have "too much" money. I'm steadily eating myself deeper and deeper into credit card debt, with monthly bail outs from my home down payment fund so I dont lose my apartment or car. I'm drowning. I've been unemployed since July and I can't find anything! It's so disheartening.

 

[k1w1]

Try not to use a card as an income stream, the interest is appalling and will be around for years.
Have you considered using your funds to move to a cheaper country like Asia or South of the boarder?
Parts of the usa are fiscally fried thanks to the present govt.
Failing this, maybe a live-in job incl. costs.

 

[SadCryingBunny]

Uber

I applied and was denied because I have "too much" money. I'm steadily eating myself deeper and deeper into credit card debt, with monthly bail outs from my home down payment fund so I dont lose my apartment or car. I'm drowning. I've been unemployed since July and I can't find anything! It's so disheartening.

Uber & Doordash. Problem solved. I wish you great success.

 

[Worndown]

I did.
It was easy for me, my affliction gets auromatic approval.
Still got denied once because a case worker called me twice in less than an hour when I was away from my phone.
Supervisor appologized and fixed it.

It is normally not easy, especially today. The system tried to filter out those just looking for a free ride. Today, we are all accused of that, broken or not.

If you work with a hospital or a relief agency, they can help. My hospital set it all up for me. I also lived.
Not my preferred life, but you play the cards in your hand.
Ask if you have questions.

 

[CatLvr]

I did but damn it was a process. Finally got it, after an appeal and a hearing before the administrative law judge. I found it interesting in her ruling that she basically admonished my original case working for ignoring the reports from several doctors (one of whom was THEIR "guy" saying I was truly unable to work at that time). It is bizarre to me that you can provide all the information they demand, see a dozen doctors who all say the same thing and ONE person (who is not trained in anything other than pushing paper into folders and sticking it into a file cabinet) can say "Ehhh, I don't think so." If I hadn't been a paralegal and actually knew the process I would have killed myself when I got that first denial. (No, oddly enough I was not suicidal back then. Damn life is weird sometimes.) Makes me wonder just how many lives they have fucked up over the years, all because they can't be assed to actually do their job or just are mean-hearted or hell whatever reason they have for denying claims from people who have worked their entire lives and now cannot for whatever reason.

 

[aRose]

Took two years for me. Ultimately it was my mental health that disqualified me from interacting with other ppl at all really.