Disability

Doreen

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7. You have to ask for everything and figure out the proper way to ask.

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 11:47 AM

Sep 2018

They will not offer any additional info unless you ask. They pussyfoot around the answers and you need to listen carefully. I always take friends who are good at catching things like that and we tend to get the truth and additional info. I know this sounds bad but I call it "working the system" and it is work. Occasionally you find someone in the system who wants to help in your favor but that is getting more and more rare. I say to you to not give up even though I know it is hard. I do not know what lawyers you are finding but the lawyers who help with this only get paid if you win. You do not need to take a lawyer that SOC-SEC advises. There are ones who are not affiliated with SOC-SEC and really want to help.

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