After my second stroke and ensuing complications, I applied for SSD. Back ground information: I had been on SSD before finishing my master's degree. Therefore, I was entitled to an expedited claim. To date it has taken 10 months for approval. And now, that I have been approved, no one can find my claim in the disbursement department in DC. I have ran out of medications, cannot afford the blood analysis, and cannot afford to see my doctor.
I suggest that anyone who has been treated rudely, waited too long for a claim to be started, waited too long after approval to be placed on benefits, or just simply unsatisfied with any staff working for social security should call his or her congress person and make a formal complaint. (We should never accept being treated bad by a social security representative.) And while you have your representative's agent on the phone insist on a study to determine how long it takes the average disability claim to make it's way through the process.
Nothing will be done to change things if we do not use our voices collectively.
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