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the patients (clients) perception of what they can or cannot do.

It is disingenuous at best to claim it is that easy. SSI is not awarded on that basis. Guess again.

Um, yeah....PID is not caused *from having unprotected sex*. Actually one of the most common causes is having *protected sex*, as using an IUD for birth control has been proven to make women more prone to it. PID is caused by the transmission of bacteria to the reproductive tract. This can be accomplished by something as simple as douching or not washing hands b4 inserting a tampon. Or sometimes contracting chlamydia or gonorrhea, which does not necessarily translate to *unprotected sex*. Women who have symptoms of PID most commonly have lower abdominal pain. Other signs and symptoms include fever, unusual vaginal discharge that may have a foul odor, painful intercourse, painful urination, irregular menstrual bleeding, & pain in the right upper abdomen. Scarring in the fallopian tubes & other pelvic structures can also cause chronic pelvic pain. Women with repeated episodes of PID are more likely to suffer infertility, ectopic pregnancy, &/or chronic pelvic pain. Anyone who doesn't think chronic pain (I mean, c'mon, we're talking feeling like knives are being rammed up there, in addition to painful peeing & periods) is debilitating enough to be a disability hopefully doesn't work for SSA or is in a position to evaluate a patient's conditions for them.

Psoriasis is not *just a rash*. It's an automimmune disorder (that person has a weakened immune system & is now more likely to become sick). When a person has one autoimmune disorder, usually other ones will *piggyback* onto the original one & follow, giving a person several chronic conditions. Psoriasis is huge patches of thick, scaly, silvety-pink skin, which itches, tingles, & flakes off. It also can cause severe joint pain, skin infections, skin cancer, genital lesions in men, severe dandruff, make one's nails become deformed or fall off entirely, & is sometimes accompanied by oozing pustules. You really want that person to be asking you if you want fries w/ that?

The guy who didn't know was probably on AFDC at some pt as a child. If a child has been diagnosed w/ any kind of learning disability (ADD, ADHD, ODD, autism, Asperger's, hearing/vision/speech impaired are just some) & takes SPED classes, DSS will literally hand the parent an application for SSI & make them apply as a condition of receiving assistance. Somebody at SSA looked over what the kid's pediatrician & tchrs had to say & approved it. There are periodic re-evals for disability, so apparently whatever was wrong w/ him as a kid now prevents him from working at more than substantial gain.

Depression & anxiety are valid reasons for receiving disability. It doesn''t have an age limit & can be extremely debilitating. Ever see anyone have a full-fledged panic attack? It ain't pretty. Using narcotics illegally or smoking pot is a known way to *self-medicate* w/ these conditions. They don't need scorn, they need a better shrink.

Just b/c you *perceive* someone is *undeserving* b/c you think they brought on a real medical condition by a habit of which you disapprove (ie, smoking) doesn't mean they don't have genuine medical issues & doesn't mean smoking was the cause of it. OSHA wasn't always in the workplace & plenty of older ppl who have never smoked contracted chronic lung diseases from inhaling fumes we now know are toxic, or can have heart attacks due to a genetic predisposition like atherolsclerosis. Smoking doesn't *cause* everything.

This is full of ingenuous *talking pts* to purposely create bias. The person doesn't even have the program right for a lot of these. SSI is Supplemental Security Income; it's given to ppl who have been disabled from birth or at a very young age, or who became disabled so young that they didn't have sufficient *quarters* in, & to, as the name implies, supplement the income of those whose SSD (Social Security Disability) doesn't reach poverty level. SSD is given to ppl who have worked long enough to acquire those 17 quarters, tho it may be supplemented w/ a sm amt of SSI to get them to what SSA terms *the SSI standard* of the princely sum of $785/mo on which to subsist. I think the max anyone can collect out of SSD regardless of lifetime earnings is $1200/mo.

And you *want your SSI*? LOL It's not a fortune. Don't give up that day job judging others, I'm sure it pays much better than SSD or SSI does.

moby,

No comment except take your medications, do what your therapist asks of you and get a job

wow, Typical if someone presents the facts you decide to attack them. Your assumptions followed by your insults aimed at another viner are uncalled for, unfounded , a COH violation and leave me with a bad taste in mouth.

In response to your article I have a question. Why do you target the most vulnerable in our society to spread untruths about? Does it feed your ego, or what?

Grisham you are so right, up here i could take you to at least 12 people that don't deserve what they get from the government. i don't know how they do it or live with it.

I dressed up as a woman one year for halloween.

I so want pix of that :P

The "bad apples", which include corrupt doctors and lawyers as well as "patients" and "clients" who are malingering, should go to jail or get fined for taking advantage of a system meant to help those in need.

Malingering? Use of that term implies there is something medically wrong w/ someone, they're just refusing to pull themselves up by their bootstraps & go back to work & suffer thru it. A very good friend of mine died just over 2 yrs ago, having been misdiagnosed w/ asthma for yrs, & *exaggerating* it at that, when she'd really picked up a terminal case of COPD from working in a factory & being exposed to toxic fumes....after she fled an abusive marriage & chose to support her 2 kids working a crappy menial job rather than *go on welfare*. And she went back there to work after her 2nd husband died from another one of those malingerers' diseases on the list, diabetes. And her anxiety disorder from not being able to freakin' breathe properly just made her an even bigger *drama queen*. She wasn't correctly diagnosed until just 3 yrs b4 she died, when it was too damn late to do anything but hand her an oxygen tank & go, ooops, guess she wasn't malingering after all, huh?

Malingering. That pisses me off. There's no rhyme or reason to SSA. There's ppl close to retirement age who have 20 different things wrong w/ them fighting SSA for 5-6 yrs, just to get the piddly little benefit they pd into for 30+ yrs. And now they don't even get pd back to date of onset, but to date of last denial. Yeah, ooops, that date we said you weren't crippled, guess you were, but we're still not going to pay you all the way back to when you got that way. Makes no sense at all.

Nobody would go thru the torment the US govt puts them thru for half a decade or more to get approved if they were malingering. Not for the little bit they finally get, not to have SSA up their ass for the rest of their miserable existence, not to never have any financial worth more than $2K, not to slide down into poverty & have the US govt force them to stay there by making them piss away all that *back pay* within 9 mos or else they then have *too much $* & can get cut off! The apocryphal tales of ppl on disability w/ 42" plasma TVs are all true, but only b/c the US govt won't allow ppl to save the $ they unjustly denied them. They have to blow it on stupid @!$%# & present the receipts to prove it.

About as many ppl *take advantage of the system* of disability as there are those who take advantage of the system of social services....about 1% or so. There's no epidemic of malingerers. This person is full of it.

I'm not sure what you're asking, Arkansas?

Forgive me- oops!!! My reply was in jest- sarcasm as to the abuse of the system that is happening , but I typed Grisham, when the reply was to be directed to Moby's ManCave. What I was saying is that there is terrible abuse of the system. I do not need to go and start SSI right now, only that many DO have legitimate issues they COULD file on- yet these people who were highlighted here are obviously ones that have hired the right attorneys!

Scammers, users and abusers have no shame!

And people I know need SSI and had hell getting it. A friend has been t-boned three times in 20 years by drunks and people running red lights. Her back from the base of her skull to her tail bone is a mess of pins, wires and cages. She's endured a minimum of 8 surgeries since I have known her, has a pain pump, suffers from peripheral neuropathy in her hands, feet and legs. She can not even have the luxury of taking a shower alone in her house anymore becasue she falls she can not get up without help. She can no longer drive, cannot hold a job because she can not sit or stand longer then 15 minutes without her legs going numb. And the people at SSI told her she didn't qualify! A foot high stack of medical reports and she didn't qualify? WTF !!!! Took hiring a SSI lawyer to get past the screener and be assigned a Case worker. But trust me no one on SSI is getting rich and living high on the hog.

What happened to pride in work and being healthy?

It still exists. I see it all around me and am sorry that you don't.

There are so many children with parents having them diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, Bi-Polar disorder, etc, and collecting an SSI check for them.

No, there aren't. The only ones who are would be kids whose mother applied for social services, b/c DSS always looks for an *alternative income source* if they can get away w/ not paying anything. My 19 yo niece is ADHD & my brother never got a penny of SSI for her. My son was LD/SI & I never got SSI for him, either. Most ppl don't even know that's possible, except for the ones who are directed there by DSS.

Bipolar doesn't even manifest itself until a kid hits puberty & often takes yrs to diagnose correctly, b/c initially it's passed off as rebellious teen behavior, not mental illness. Any dr who say a pre-pubescent child is bipolar is an idiot b/c it can't be definitively diagnosed that young. So if it can't be, then SSAs not going to accept it.

Most kids who receive SSI do so for 1 of 3 reasons: they have a deceased parent, or a disabled parent, or were born w/ or developed a physical disability.

And don't forget, unlike SSD, which is based upon one's wages, SSI is a means-tested program. That means if the parent's income is more than the SSI standard for family size, they're going to get a denial on the initial app even if the child is severely disabled. If they get approval & their income rises, SSI will steadily decrease accordingly until there is no more.

I know a woman who's dying of metastized breast cancer. She was a SAHM beginning from her mid-30s & had only been back in the workforce for a yr when diagnosed, so she's ineligible for SSD b/c she only had 4 quarters & her quarters from her 20s had expired, & was denied SSI even tho she can't work b/c her husband makes too much $. She was in the military as a nurse b4 she had kids, for Pete's sake, & even as a veteran of the Vietnam era she can't get squat from the govt.

It's much harder to get SSD or SSI than ppl seem to think. If the US govt can find a loophole that will allow a denial, they'll use it.

Incredible story, wow! Teachers like that need a huge reprimand. What was that extra money for, special ed?

welll, not exactly, I found out after digging through the budgets, that a percentage went to the regular classes, and a percentage to administration. Considering the classroom for the special needs, a lot more went somewhere else. The upshot was that the state came in and Made them spend more on the special needs. It only took about 5 school years though. sighhh.

The parents were Not equipped to deal with the administration or the teachers. They didn't know the Questions to ask. By the time we moved though more parents were demanding Answers. Now, I'm back in the KY and there has been a lot more done.

I've dealt with the Farsighted issue for a long time. I still cannot believe that a University or College educated, licensed teacher or school administrator.... does not understand what Farsightedness actually Means. I've had More than one tell me, but they passed the school eye exam. Yeah, that eye test is for Nearsighted not for Farsighted. geez...

Boys are especially prone to Farsightedness around 3rd or 4th grade, what I consider crucial learning years. There are Pediatric Ophthalmologists, it's not that difficult to find one. So, if a boy starts having problems in those grades and I find out about it, I tell the mom take them have them checked for farsightedness. Several came back with corrective glasses.

One mom, a relative by marriage said that her boy Slept with the glasses on so he could 'see' when he wore up. How sad is that? And yes, the 'school' had sent home a notice that she should sign him up on SSI and were going to place him in 'special needs' classes. With his glasses, that idea got dumped Real fast. He graduated HS. :)

In Kentucky as of 2008 and updated 2010....29,666 children were receiving SSI benefits. Those benefits are For Life....

The average benefit for children on SSI....$500.00. parents/guardians of over a million children receive SSI.

There are children that do Really need the SSI benefits for life. And there are children pushed into the system because of the Adults in their lives both at school and at home. It is truly sad for those children.

I have a grandson in the fourth grade who just recently got a pair of eyeglasses - he loves them. This is really yet another issue on the books for teachers and their influences on children and also on government expenditures. We have to be so careful when we allow someone to "label" our children.

too true, if the parents Don't know the questions to ask, their child could wind up on SSI for life and where does that get them as a contributing member of society?

Those benefits are For Life....

It's only *for life* if A) the parental income remains low while the child is still a minor due to the means-tested platform, & B) the re-eval that should take place when the child becomes of legal age indicates a disability still exists. If not, then it stops right there, get a job.

It is the how it should work, though a lot of times it doesn't....The ones I know, the parent is on SS disability or SSi or both of them are..fairly easy to figure out the child will stay on it and does.

I've often wondered how many children are labelled just because the parent or parents have a disability.