#74478 05-16-2008 09:45 AM | Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 71 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | OP  Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 71 | I live in Arizona which does not have state disablilty I didn't know what to do until I went on the web site listed below. I applied and was accepted for Social Security Disablity Benefits. What a relief but you do have a 5 month waiting period. It was worth applying for. www.ssa.gov/disability
Tammy 43 yr non smoker- Dx-10/11/07 Stage 4 Tongue Cancer Surg.10/17/07, 1/4 Tongue and 14 Lymph nodes 5 positive, Peg tube/Chemo port,Chemo 3 wks/Radiation 6 wks begins 11/07 end 02/08.Teeth removed prior to radiation. PetScan 05/08 CLEAR 09/09. 2011 diag. w/osteoradionecrosis.100 HBO's
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | Good for you Tammy. There are too many getting it that are suckin us dry and it makes it harder for people like you, that need it to get it. I'm glad for you,.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Tammy,
it is retroactive to the date of disability so you should already be receiving checks. SSDI is relatively hard to get on.
After 2 years you will automatically be enrolled in Medicare as well.
Jim,
I really don't know about SSI because I was not eligible for it. I personally do not know anybody who abuses SSI or SSDI although I'm sure that people do. From what I have read, SSI is often abused. We have turned into an entitlement society unfortunately.
It probably isn't any worse then the doctors and pharmaceutical companies ripping off Medicare.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 71 | I will receive my first check this month. I applied and then had a 2 hour phone interview and then received a letter of approval. To be eligible you have to have credits of the years you worked which I have worked since age 16. But I know that City workers and ? State workers do not have social security taken from their checks due to a seperate pension plans offered. That is what happen to my mom working for the city when she retired. But, my husband only worked part time to help me we both have great bosses so we had to use a lot of our saving for bills plus medical bills. This social security will be a very helpful until I am up speed again. I am hoping to beable to go back to work by the end of the year. I won't able to go back to what I was doing which was designing landscaping. I was outside in the sun all day. So it will be back to office work. It will be good to get back to a semi-normal life again.
Tammy 43 yr non smoker- Dx-10/11/07 Stage 4 Tongue Cancer Surg.10/17/07, 1/4 Tongue and 14 Lymph nodes 5 positive, Peg tube/Chemo port,Chemo 3 wks/Radiation 6 wks begins 11/07 end 02/08.Teeth removed prior to radiation. PetScan 05/08 CLEAR 09/09. 2011 diag. w/osteoradionecrosis.100 HBO's
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Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 735 | Tammy
That is GREAT !! My dr wanted me to apply and I did but i was Denied. So I went back to work ..ready or NOT ! and I have a really YUCKY immune system and work with kids and end up SICK alot ! LOL ... They still want me out but I couldnt afford to stay out and fight it .
SO that is GREAT that you have been approved right away !!!
Sharlee
35 year old Female Non smoker, very occasional alcohol ..Scc T1N0M0,partial glossectomy and left neck disection ,2/9/07 No rad deemed ness. 4/16 tonsillectomy ..Trimengenial Neuralga due to surgery
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