I am 80%, and understand i can put in for s.s. i plan on moving to florida(pensacola) for health resons. will it be a hard process to get or appliy for s.s. i am 54 years old. can anybody give me some information that is living in florida. email me at MARINE52@COMCAST.NET THANKS!!
Danny you can file for SSDI based upon the same medical information that you use for VA. One thing to note, SSDI is 100% only. So your condition must be totally disabling.
I applied for SSDI at 90% was nicely refused, they did look at the VA records and said no, so I let it drop (My VSO said she has little knowledge of how SS works). Since then I was put on IU. I now have an appointment with SS on the 14th of this month. To your knowledge will SS look at IU as 100% or only SC as 100%? I have a very strong case to get my SC to 100% but with IU I never thought I had a reason too.
When going for SSDI you need to go ahead and get a good Disability lawyer, try to get someone who use to work for SS. We have a ex SS Judge here in Springfield, MO, who is helping people to win their case for SSDI.
I applied for mind without a lawyer and was turned down. I over heard the doorman or whatever he is called who lets the Judge know who is coming in next. I heard him say that the next one will be an easy one as he does not have a lawyer.
I ended up giving a lawyer $4,000.00 for 2 hours of work. He filed my appeal and appeared with me at my next hearing which I had to drive back to TX for. When the Judge found out that I had moved to MO, they decided to send my case to MO, the Judge here wanted me to appear again, I stated that my lawyer was in TX and they had a recording of my last hearing, so I was approved without reappearing, thank God.
A lot depends on your disabilities and the type of work you had been doing, or the type of work you are qualified to do.
As Dave has stated, with SSDI, it is all or nothing. My case was bad enough that they did not check up on me for 7 years, then I just had to fill out a form with all of my doctor appointments and all the medication and heart test that I had just had. They did not ask for anything else. I had statements from 4 doctors that I could not work just in case I needed them.
I read on the SS website that they follow up anywhere from every 2 years to 7 years depending on your condition.
A good lawyer who only does SSDI cases will know if you should be approved. Since the lawyer only gets paid if you win, they are not going to take your case if they do not feel that you have a good case for disability.
O, by the way I am 100% IU, otherwise 70%, so you do not have to be SC at 100% to get SSDI.
In college in TX we had all kinds of cases, some with SSDI who could not get any VA or very little, others with 100% Schedular who could not get SSDI. I never could figure anything out.
This thread reminds me of a good buddy of mine that lost a leg in Nam. He draws SSI but for quite sometime he had to go back to Springfield (Ill) every year so they could verify it had not grown back.
I was approved for SSDI last year, although the award was for conditions other than my current SC from VA. In the Judge's decision letter I recieved prior to the award letter, it stated "due to be reviewed in 2010", so about every few years. My disability conditions was for heart/circulation issues. I continue to maint- tain follow-up care with cardiologist at VA. That way when review time does come around, I will have documentation. Also advised by attor- ney to do so. I have posted before just addsd a screenname.
I was approved about 6 years ago. I was about at the end of the period without earned income when you can apply - I had been eligible for years and did not know it. They did not set a review date, but I have had no earned income recorded since then, and I continue with the treatment.
I've been on SSDI since 2001 for cancer, however a couple of years ago I was put through the ringers when they tried to stop it. I had to go see one of their doctors and he put me through it, but then he said you have nothing to worry about, then he told me he was a retired Air Force doctor he said I'll take care of the vets that come to see me. I still worry about them trying to stop the SSDI again and sending me to some quack who could give a s**t about veterans.
I live in Florida but I have gone through this thing in a backwards kind of fashion. I quit working on my own....and applied for ss and reapplied to the Va for my back condition at the same time in 2002. I did the ss on my own but i do recommend a lawyer..but keep in mind they will want a percentage of your ss pay once you are approved. The process took about a year with ss with going to see the doctors they sent me to and you can expect denials. I had to go through one or two appeals and before a judge in pensacola...I am expecting the same kind of thing with my upcoming BVA hearing in washington dc. Bottom line is I was approved for my social security disability..factor in all of your injuries, and limiting factors...education...past jobs...job experience, etc. You can also claim depression that is a result of your injury and other factors. I'll let you know if I ever get a service connection for my back..that fight has been going on for qutie awhile. Charlie.
You can draw a Federal Civil Service Pension without SSDI offset or VA comp offset.
You can draw a state pension and VA comp without offset.
Some combinations are more complex than others. Some states have offset laws with Social Security. VA Pension are different than Compensation and have different rules.
The VA put me on IU, I did not ask for it or file any paper work for it. When I was rated 90% it said that the decision for IU was pending and about 30 days later I received another packet saying I was P&T and IU.
