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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One doctor claiming you have an illness is not enough to be approved for disability. There are doctors employed by the SSA who do exams and review applications. There also has to be a provable history of being somehow impaired by the illness. They want the doctor's records, hospital records, records of any and all medical procedures, stacks of forms filled out by several doctors, etc. It takes some people with legitimate disabilities 1-2 years to get their application approved. The only person I know who was approved on the first application was a child with profound mental retardation, autism and rapidly declining vision, expected to be blind before reaching adulthood.

It's just foolish and uninformed to believe it can all be magically approved by one shady physician's word. [/quote]

I can only go by what my friend told me...I am not personally looking in to  it myself.

It did take them a couple years to get the husband approved and then once he was approved they submitted for her and then the daughter. Apparently, my friend was denied but appealed and feels confident this time she will be successful.

Really, both my friend and her husband are completely capable of working. My friend has a college degree - she just doesn't want to work but needed income.  Thousands of people scam disability and they are just two of thousands. Its just like any other type of assistance.   [/quote]

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