I suffer from depression/social anxiety and have not been able to keep a job for more than 6 months. I cannot attend collegel 3 days out of 5 because I cannot mentally leave my house. I am 22 years old.
Should I try to apply or wait? I
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Hi L K:
You should apply for disability. No you do not have to be on it for the rest of your life and poor.
If you are disabled in one way, shape or form you are entitled to receive disability compensation.
You go to your local social security office, fill out the application, sit with your case worker and go over very basic things, name address, etc...
Now all is up to the government. The do the records requests and so on. When you get your letter in the mail to approve or deny you do not expect an approval. Expect the denial.
Now you appeal the decision by your self or with a lawyer. I appealed by my self and again was denied. For my 3rd try, I hired a disbility lawyer. I paid no monies up front, he only got paid if we won and his fee would be 33% of the first check which is actually retroactive from the day you first applied at the social security office.
With the help of my lawyer (Oh, who was excellent) I was approved right there in court in front of the judge. I was shocked.
I am on disability and I will not state the amount that I receive be it is well beyond the $600.oo that is mentioned, if I am able to work even a little I am allowed to earn up to $500.oo a month w/o my benifits being affected. If I am able to work or earn more the a meeting with social security will be made and the options will be discussed with you. If you can go back to work full time then your disability will stop, BUT if working full time makes you disabled again, then you will be placed back on disability.
You do not have to be on disability for life. Being poor has nothing to do with your benefits. You can have a million dollars in the bank and that will never effect your disability benefits, ever. So it also has nothing to do about how much money you have or how much money you don't have.
I would not wait, you sound as if you have a disability. Go to the social security office an apply. The sooner you go, the faster it will be activated.
Be safe and be well
yes
maybe try a half way house for people with depression
u should wait
i feel really bad and hope the best for u
If you go on disability you can get off and if necessary back on again. They even have programs to help people get back into the work force. At least in Canada
I hope that's not true because I am on disability for depression right now and I hope that I will one day be able to hold down a job again because it's even more depressing to have absolutely nothing to do with my time. Of course, if you start working again and make over a certain amount, you'd be kicked off disability I'd think.
You probably should. Maybe people that say that once you're on it you don't come off is because many people find that it's an easy way to earn a buck, by doing NOTHING. So if you're having trouble making ends meet, yes. Also keep looking for an employer that is ok with your disability, work on it to try to stabilize your disability, and also look into other ways of making ends meet, maybe you're eligible for food stamps or something like that...
Good luck, and for some hope, my dad was deathly ill for 3 months and was in the hospital, he couldn't work almost 6 months, put him out of a job, he collected disability, but when he got back to his feet he ended up getting his job back and only had trouble paying bills for about a month after that (see, the disability was more than he earned regularly...why people stay on it...), so there's hope for you!
For me I think you should be. Try Apply
Honey you need to go to a doctor? Baby steps make sure you go to therapy first and find out the root of your depression.They have a lot of great things that don't include drugs if you aren't into that. Try taking a year off from school and get back in touch with you. Then, get back up on your horse. Meditation is key. Maybe try reading your bible. If not that then pray about it.That always works for me. It will get better.
Seek therapy and talk it over with a counselor. Meds will help too.
Yes it is true that you will be on disability the rest of your life and poor (WELL BELOW THE POVERTY LINE, SSI PAYS ONLY $600 A MONTH OR SO!!) And you can't own anything, so even if you can somehow save money on that piddly income, you can't buy a fishing boat, for example, if it's at all nice.