Successfully applying for Social Security disability is difficult. Applying as a #LongCovid patient is even trickier
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#SocialSecurity denies #disability benefits based on list with #jobs from 1977
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#SocialSecurityDisability feels like a bureaucratic shell game
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Judges rebuke Social Security for errors
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#Covid #LongHaulers Spark Call for Increased Disability Funding
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As part of the overall process they also want information as it relates to various checkboxes for someone's ability to work.
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What worked in my case and gave the determination is each specific, detailed symptom (again, not "anxiety" but "which results in difficulty concentrating, etc.")
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Because even if I could've somehow put myself through the process of doing the first application there is no way I would've known or understood that the first rejection is part of the process.
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But the big thing to remember here is that three applications and three years is fast compared to what many people go through.
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If there are jobs someone with my symptoms could possibly do the system considers me capable of working.
Read the full article: Social Security Disability Application Part 3: Winning the Hearing
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They understood how to talk to me in a way that was helpful and kept me from having panic attacks at seeing official looking envelopes in my mail and I am supremely grateful for that.
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The evaluation starts by asking about my history.
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