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I am both EXTREMELY disappointed & annoyed. I received a list of lawyers who work with SSI/SSDI from my neurologists. We contacted them but may as well have not. ALL of them replied that ALTHOUGH I may be able to receive benefits due to epilepsy, two MAJOR things are preventing me from receiving it.
The ONLY job I ever had before complex partials began was as a cashier in Baker's Square Restaurant, while in high school. I BARELY worked after college graduation, (or more correctly, once my older son was a year old). Thanks to that, I don't have the minimum Social Security credits.
The OTHER preventive issue is that I'm married, & my husband's income. A spouse's income should NOT have bearing on this issue. One person actually suggested, believe it or not, that we get separated JUST so I would qualify!!
 
Sabbo said:
The OTHER preventive issue is that I'm married, & my husband's income. A spouse's income should NOT have bearing on this issue. One person actually suggested, believe it or not, that we get separated JUST so I would qualify!!
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I know about this. If I'd married the man I'd been dating at the time (we're not together anymore) then I would have been 'getting too much money', if that's the right way to word it, and wouldn't have been able to get SSI. Even now if I were to marry the man I'm with then I know I wouldn't be able to get SSI because I'd 'be getting too much money' again. We don't live together but if we did I don't think we'd be able to afford just living off his income alone if we did.

I don't know where this came from but it doesn't make sense.
 
It is literally AS THOUGH the system WANTS you to remain in poverty if you're disabled. If a person has any type of disability PREVENTING them from working, being married to a person who has a decent income or may be called well-to-do SHOULD NOT end their chance. The SPOUSE'S income should have NO BEARING on the disabled person's eligibility for benefits. Some spouses give the disabled spouse NO access to the money being brought in.
 
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