so, they were paying for the obstructive and incompetent approval/appeal process, in many back years of benefits, years and years PER disabled applicant.
typically instead of changing that, they just changed the law, caps back pay at 2 years. and that is 2 years of hardship, watching your whole life swirl down the toilet
forgive me Masrek, missed your question.
actually the time you have been covered and blessed by ssdi is wonderful, i could not be happier for you.
i reminded myself and a few other people of my many years of unending effort, and some success, until now i totally lost that memory.
lots of self image is tied up in just answering "so, what do you do?"
you will get some good answers to that, useful in all sorts of occasions:
my personal favorite answer right now, "i live in a rubber room"
This message has been edited by patlittlejohn on Apr 10, 2009 7:43 AM