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From: geb@cadre.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Social security disability
Message-ID: <194@cadre.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 17:59:00 EST
Article-I.D.: cadre.194
Posted: Tue Jan 22 17:59:00 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Jan-85 09:26:41 EST
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Reply-To: geb@cadre.ARPA (Gordon E. Banks)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pgh.
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Summary: 

Don't count on SS disability.  I am a neurologist and have to
fill out the forms.  I've got patients in wheel chairs with
MS that can't get disability without appealing umpteen times.
Sure, ten years ago you could get it for headaches, but no more.
If they think you can hold ANY job, they will cut you off.  That
means telephone solicitor, selling pencils, etc.  Would you hire
someone with Huntington's Chorea?  Anyway, private disability
insurance is a must!  They aren't nearly as strict as SS when
it comes to paying off.  Some policies state that if you can't
perform the profession for which you are trained you are entitled
to the payments.  I would never count on SS for disability, since
I have seen too many hard-luck cases.  (Also, once you get it,
they can jerk it at any time, and you don't get it back until you
appeal again, and if you don't hire a lawyer, your appeal is likely
to fail.)