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Disability Delays Article

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Many Seeking Disability From Social Security Face Big Delays
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Published: December 10, 2007

RALEIGH, N.C. Steadily lengthening delays in the resolution of Social Security disability claims have left hundreds of thousands of people in a kind of purgatory, now waiting as long as three years for a decision.

Two-thirds of those who appeal an initial rejection eventually win their cases.

......Click the link to read the rest of the article, it's 2 pages long...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/washington/10cnd-disability.html?exprod=myyahoo


---I hope my claim doesn't take that long---
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I read the whole article and feel very thankful that I didn't have to wait long. My whole process only took 4 months in 2000. I was pretty sick at the time so maybe that is why. I hope you don't get those delays either. The system is really screwed up according to the article, they don't have enough people working for how many claims are coming in. And then to think 2/3rds of the people get the social security after appealing. Seems like alot of lives are destroyed in the process. I will say a prayer that your claim won't be delayed. I hope you can have a good night. Sleep peacefully. vickie
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Oh... My only reason for getting ANYWHERE is Senator McCain's office. THANK YOU, Daisy, A MILLION TIMES THANK YOU!!!!!

I can *never* thank you enough for finding and sharing that tip with me. Thank GOD for Senator McCain!!!! :) He is definitely a good man and a conscientious politician!
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You're Welcome...Now, I need to get my bootie on sending that letter I wrote last month, printed and mailed. I did write that I CC'd the Senator in it.

UH....PTSD Procrastination
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