Got my disability determination letter from SSA the other day

[janterry]

4. They don't

Last edited Sat Mar 25, 2017, 06:35 AM - Edit history (1)

usually talk to anyone. You need letters that say you cannot work for MORE than 12 months. Did your neuro write and sign a letter saying that? Did your GP? You need letters from MD's that say those words (and then a full dx., of course, with the case summary/discharge notes.....).

I used to get disability for clients when I was a case manager - and I always got it for them the first time we applied. But I personally collected all of the records and then released t hem in a packet to SSI. Sometimes, when you fill out a request, the wrong things goes to SSI (or never goes) OR the wording is not correct (so, I'd call and ask the MD - or their secretary - whether they believed that the client could work within the next 12 months. If they could not, then that is what I had them write in a letter - in addition to the case records).

Good luck!

edited because it was early in the am and I wrote 6 months. SSI needs a letter stating that you cannot work for more than 12 months (which the OP already knows , but just to be clear for others.