alt.social-security-disability

"Relayer" wrote in message
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> On Aug 13, 1:47?pm, unclefrank28...@ wrote:
>> Dear Jack and others -
>>
>> Just found out that Quality Review has sent my (DDS approved) file
>> back to DDS, after about 5 weeks of sitting on it; they are contesting
>> only the onset date.
>>
>> I do not have medical history supporting my date, but showed last date
>> effectively worked, and supported that with detailed earnings
>> documentation.
>>
>> Just curious...will SSA go ahead and begin paying monthly benefits
>> while they sort out the details of the onset date, or will it all stay
>> tied up in a quagmire over the onset?
>>
>> (Age 60, BMI about 54, super-morbidly obese, primary lymphedema stage
>> two with constant and severe pain, very limited mobility, loss of
>> focus, no concentration, very little sleep, ADL detail showing
>> inability to sustain any SGA, dysthymia, etc.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Frank
>
> Hey Frank, just from my experience, they used the onset date to
> determine the date of my first payment (which was 5 months later). In
> addition, my onset date was established as the first date my
> disability was diagnosed. Not the first date I became sick or the date
> I stopped working because of it. There is about a 2 month difference
> in those dates (it took my doctors 2 months to figure it out)
>
In my case, I told my doctor I had been reading DSM-III and asked for
antidepressants in 1992, self-dxing as cyclothymic (now Bipolar II). He
agreed; I worsened over a period of 11 years and finally quit working. Date
of onset was the very first day I did not work.