100%with No Work Credit For Ssi

[Mr cue]

i have no work credit for ssi i have been disabilty since 93 i was hurt in service 22yr old i have noy work since than i was give 10% for 8 yrs 2001i was granted 60% unemployabe. so tell i guess all i have is my va payment or is there some thing else i should due i have cue claim about 93 .but want to no what i can do about ssi

[Philip Rogers]

Sorry Berta, but in "my" opinion, don't use Allsup. They are lazy and only take the easiest claims that are almost impossible to lose. My sister went to them, they signed her up, reviewed her claim and sent her a letter canceling their representation, wasting about 3 months time. She got an SSDI atty, in our area and won about 36 months of retro. She filed her claim about 5yrs after her disability started. She won last spring and the ALJ established her disability date as 9/11/01. He verified it thru SSA, because she had no income since then.

Tssnave: Anyone who hasn't worked in yrs must use the day after the last day they worked as the disability onset date. As they, SS employees, cannot be held responsible for errors, nothing they say over the phone should be considered true. What they did for you was stop you from filing your claim. File it today and don't let them talk you out of it.

pr

[tssnave]

Phillip,

Thanks for the feedback.

TS

[Philip Rogers]

TS, glad to help!

pr

Phillip,

Thanks for the feedback.

TS

[MRRRR5]

Sorry Berta, but in "my" opinion, don't use Allsup. They are lazy and only take the easiest claims that are almost impossible to lose. My sister went to them, they signed her up, reviewed her claim and sent her a letter canceling their representation, wasting about 3 months time. She got an SSDI atty, in our area and won about 36 months of retro. She filed her claim about 5yrs after her disability started. She won last spring and the ALJ established her disability date as 9/11/01. He verified it thru SSA, because she had no income since then.

Tssnave: Anyone who hasn't worked in yrs must use the day after the last day they worked as the disability onset date. As they, SS employees, cannot be held responsible for errors, nothing they say over the phone should be considered true. What they did for you was stop you from filing your claim. File it today and don't let them talk you out of it.

pr

PR,

not to hi-jack this post but I did just that for my spouse (filed for SSA disability, not the income based one) and she got a letter from SSA saying she did not have enough credits in the right time frame, the income base SSA one is out of the question.

We called the SSA office after the letter arrived as well as an SSA attorney and both said that there were no exceptions.

[Philip Rogers]

MRRRR5: can you post or email me a copy of their decision. VAslayer2002@yahoo.com The important thing is the date of disability onset. Bear in mind, they, like the VA, "lie." Not necessarily lie but don't know, so they give misinformation.

pr

PR,

not to hi-jack this post but I did just that for my spouse (filed for SSA disability, not the income based one) and she got a letter from SSA saying she did not have enough credits in the right time frame, the income base SSA one is out of the question.

We called the SSA office after the letter arrived as well as an SSA attorney and both said that there were no exceptions.

[MRRRR5]

MRRRR5: can you post or email me a copy of their decision. VAslayer2002@yahoo.com The important thing is the date of disability onset. Bear in mind, they, like the VA, "lie." Not necessarily lie but don't know, so they give misinformation.

pr

The decision letter states (verbatim) dated April 2008:

"We are writing to tell you that you do not qualify for disability benefits.

WHY WE CANNOT PAY YOU

You do not qualifiy for diability benefits because you have not worked long enough under Social Security.

We figure work under Social Security in credits. Please read the enclosed pamphlet, "How you earn Social Security credits", which explains how the credits are earned and how many a person must have to receive benefits.

Since you do not have enough work credits to qualify for benefits, we did not make a decision about whether you are disabled under our rules.

OTHER SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS

You are not entitled to any other Social Security benefits based on the application you filed. In the future, if you think you may be entitled to benefits, you will need to apply again."

It continue on about if you disagree, you have 60 days for date of letter to appeal, yada, yada, yada.

When we called the 1-800-number on the letter as well as the local office, and asked why they didn't say if she was disabled under SSA rules in the letter, they said that it would not matter since the credits were not enough, but verbally she would have "qualified" and they were sorry that they could not help us. Then we called several SS attorneys in the local area to ask them and they said the same thing about her not having enough credits and they could not help either.