My gf only had to go through one appeal for disability. The hearing took about 45 minutes, I was there as a....material witness? Something like that - since I'd been driving her around and dealing with her doctors and all that - and they never called me in.
The good thing, at least in NY, is that once you DO get approved, you get ALL the disability funds you would have gotten if you were approved the first time. So since it had been a few years to get her appeal in front of a judge, she got a respectably sized windfall, spread out over the span of several months.
I don't know if that applies in your state or not - but if so, it's a silver lining in the cloud of red-tape-stupid you're dealing with.
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Date: 2011-04-16 11:11 pm (UTC)The good thing, at least in NY, is that once you DO get approved, you get ALL the disability funds you would have gotten if you were approved the first time. So since it had been a few years to get her appeal in front of a judge, she got a respectably sized windfall, spread out over the span of several months.
I don't know if that applies in your state or not - but if so, it's a silver lining in the cloud of red-tape-stupid you're dealing with.
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