Improving the Lives of America's Forgotten

How are you going to improve the lives of America's Young Adult Permanently Disabled populations who are unable to work or get Social Security?

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[discuscatcher]

Recently as ken separated from me and lost his job, I went back as we have next to NO income. They told me it had been 2 yrs, too long to automatically resume SSI. They are making me start ALL OVER!!! Will it take 2 more years!!! now I am without meds the Cataplexy is Horrible, and the applications to get PPA from Nord, etc are impossibly legthy and exhausting. Uggh,

[discuscatcher]

I even went through the whole SSI process with a lawyer, took 2 yrs, but I won. Bitter sweet though, I got $2 K back pay for 2004-2006, then was told Ken made $100 too much for 2 people to get any more SSI, and I was 2 work credits short to get SSDI!

[discuscatcher]

TX Medicaid system only will help me NOW if I get pregnant. To me, I would rather support one person, rather than them and their child they cannot afford. For me to get pregnant would be an act of stupidity/desperation due to lack of health insurance. My severe Narcolepsy with Cataplexy, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chronic Lymes Disease, and Diabetes, I did NOTHING to contract. Pregnancy, except for cases of Rape/Incest is self-caused. Why only help the pregnant?

[petsitterlinda]

If you have SSD your Medicare kicks in after 18 months so why can't you get your meds and doctors care? Also, how about low income housing, local food pantry etc. There's lots of help available, but you have to get out there and apply!

[discuscatcher]

I cannot get SSDI/Medicare, I became debilitated before I had enough work credits. "The moral test of govt. is how it treats those in the dawn of life, the children; those in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped."

[discuscatcher]

For the permanently disabled it should be, and in every other develped nation it is!

[moonbro4]

you have no idea what is like to be ill. For some people it is all they can do to get out of bed. besides why does it have to be so damn hard to get help

[osita5673]

I dont understand your reply at all. Dust2glory is in the right. Many people hook on to welfare and stay there. He works hard, as everyone should. He hasn't called her a sponge. He was referring to the on welfare. It is a system with all the best intentions, of course. And many people NEED it. But You cannot rightly call a man who works so hard to stay away from that a low life sponge. I'm just saying, you misunderstood him.

[ENDOFDAYS8000]

Your the low life Sponge DUST2glory07. If most of them can work why don't you find them the jobs asshole. Its hard to Survive on SSI along even a family. The max SSI is 637.00 a month, SSDI can be up to 3000 a month and thats bullshit, so DUST2glory07 you pay taxes toward SSDI not SSI and in your lifetime the most you payed in will be close to 20 grand. At 2 to 3ooo a month will go past your little 20 grand in 40 years you payed in, in Disapility taxes. So people pay your ASS to you Sponge!!

[b3nnic3]

Health care isn't the job of the government.