The short answer is: probably if you are “disabled enough”. Supplemental Security Income(SSI) is a needs-based program specifically designed to help people who do not have a work history to apply for SSDI. Generally, these are people who have been affected by their condition since birth or childhood, or who have spent long periods of…
I was fortunate enough to never need to ask that question. When I applied, I was physically unable to work due to symptoms and had lost two jobs in the previous three months. My parents helped me through the wait financially, and I focused on my treatments and healing process. I did not even think…
Filing for disability put me in a depressive funk that left me exhausted, and the process of filing the paperwork literally took me weeks because I couldn’t work on it for more than ten to fifteen minutes at a time before I was physically unable to continue. Filing for disability, in itself, was an emotional…