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Packo and Larry said!

PS---Packo..............You're absolutely right in your assesment of SS disabilty as well. It took me nearly THREE FREAKIN YEARS to get my SS disabilty award AFTER I was awarded my 100% P & T from the VA and included an appeal of the SS's first denial.

I didn't hire a lawyer for this appeal but spent many, many weeks at my local library studying every appropiate statute and rule of law not to mention months and months of phone calls and trips to private and VA physicians to gather the necessary PROOF to make sure the SS administration could NOT deny the 'facts' of my case!

The SS adjudiction officer that granted my award told me he had NEVER seen such a thorough and comprehensive example of documentation to support a claim!

It's a sad state of affairs when many of this nations citizens (veteran or not) are either unable to hire an attorney or don't have the where-with-all to adequately pursue something that the majority of those who DO apply for SS disabilty are worthy of.

And, which is something our Government SHOULD be more willing to offer their vast resources to help these individuals with, rather than discourage them from doing.