How Do You Un-join This Hadit Board?

[LarryJ]

Somebody?

Please?

Help Me.

I can't find the EXIT door.

The ESCAPE hatch.

Carlie, T-Bird, Berta, Pete............SOMEBODY get me the heck outta here!

[Teac]

Let me add my 2 cents.... My approval date was 18 months before I actually retired from civil service. Yes you can still be working and get SSD. I don't know how this happened But SS folks told it was normal practice to retro SSD.

[deltaj]

Let me add my 2 cents.... My approval date was 18 months before I actually retired from civil service. Yes you can still be working and get SSD. I don't know how this happened But SS folks told it was normal practice to retro SSD.

My husband has been receiving Social Security since 1986. I married my husband in 1989. Social Security told me by phone that my husband's disability began in September 1985. I asked how was that date arrived at and the person at Social Security told me, "I don't know. It was probably the date the doctor put down on the form." What really aggravates me about this situation is that thia veteran has been below the poverty line for every year since 1974 when a social worker wrote a social survey report and expressed doubt about whether he would be able to work. (The quote was something like, "He might be able to work but he'll need constant support.") My husband was misled by V.A. about the severity of his disability. At the time V.A. notified him of the original decision he was not told by V.A. that they had erred in failing to obtain his Navy records before V.A. scheduled him for a rating exam after receipt of his original claim for compensation. V.A. only had part of his Navy records in his claims folder when V.A. made his rating exam. My husband's situation is nearly identical to Garrett Hayre v. Togo West. V.A. in the 1983 decision considered medical records from Social Security but only considered one year of his wages from 1990. That August 1983 decision was on the issue of date of reopened claim but it was stripped from the record and not put back in the record even though it was designated by the veteran before the Court of Veterans Appeals. In January 1995 he tried to raise the issue that he had been 100% for many years because of his wages but when BVA copied the record BVA failed to photocopy the back side of that January 1995 addendum to notice of disagreement. I suspect BVA shredded the original two sided copy of that document and replaced it with a one sided photocopy.

[Pete53]

There is no reason for anyone on Hadit to leave over a difference of opinion.

[broncovet]

There are two rules to remember when duking it out on hadit:

1. Many Veterans who are on this board have mental issues such as PTSD, depression, MST, violence tendencies, inability to get along with others, bad memory, battle relapses, forgetting Christmas, etc. so try to remember that and get along.

2. I dont remember what the second rule is.

[Notorious Kelly]

:) broncovet

Ya, in the Yahoo Politics chat rooms people rant and insult and try to prove their arguments, but my goal in a forum such as this is to encourage and inform and give hope- not win arguments.

There are exceptions to everything but, as hard as it is to win SSDI or whatever- why push the envelope? Try to follow the guidelines and all the best to you!

kelly

[halos2]

Somtimes people say/act/do things in haste. A cooling off period is the best way to handle a situation that may not result in the outcome one thought or perceived it would. I had to take a break one time as I felt my feelings/opinions were shuffled around and not truly getting my point across.

It is like giving your kid "time out" but self imposed, not because of ill mannered behavior but because of relief of letting go of an uncomfortable scene. No harm, no foul to go on and "let it be!"

Breaks are generally healthy ways to sit back and recoup, as it offers cleansing property's to occur. Deep breath's also are good releases too.

Today is a new day, one in which we have the wonderful choice of when to engage and when to retreat.

Think rest and retreat sounds good as we have a lot of snow here. Lazy day. Quiet day. A good day to appreciate what I do have. May others find peace and joy in a "good day" for them all over the world too! :)