{"id":5952,"date":"2018-03-04T15:57:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2018-03-04T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T04:41:08","slug":"about-disability-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/about-disability-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s talk about disability insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5953\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/about-disability-insurance\/disabilities_look-like\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/disabilities_look-like.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"564,583\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1513214556&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"disabilities_look-like\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/disabilities_look-like-290x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/disabilities_look-like.jpg\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5953\" src=\"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/disabilities_look-like-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"disabilities_look-like\" width=\"223\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/disabilities_look-like-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/disabilities_look-like.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/>This is a hard topic for me to write about, but: it&#8217;s important. And it also fits in with my mission to <a href=\"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/category\/shining-a-light\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shine A Light<\/a> Into the Dark Places, the stigmatized places, the places no one wants to look at or talk about.<\/p>\n<p>And one of those places is <strong>disability<\/strong>, and specifically, <strong>disability insurance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I see sooo soo many people on twitter and other social media platforms crowdfunding things like &#8211; fish oil for their kid, or an audible membership, or a wheelchair, or funds toward a new apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Look under the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%23DisabilityWishlists&amp;src=tyah\" target=\"_blank\">#DisabilityWishlists<\/a>, and get ready to cry at all the things people need. And if you have any money to spare, which trust me, unless you too are disabled, you actually<em> do<\/em>, pick someone and send them something, no matter how small. You have no idea how much that will mean to them.<\/p>\n<p>And I had the thought: why isn&#8217;t there some sort of fund for people who are sick so that they can get the things they need just to <em>survive<\/em>, if not to <em><strong>thrive<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>And the answer is: it actually exists. It&#8217;s called Social Security Disability Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, contrary to popular opinion and the idea that people on it are lazy or are moral failures &#8211; spoiler alert: they&#8217;re not! &#8211; it&#8217;s really really really hard to get approved for disability. Really. Hard.<\/p>\n<p>And I was inspired to write this post after I read a Facebook post by <strong>Charis Hill<\/strong>: <strong>Writer, Speaker, Advocate<\/strong>, who has the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/beingcharis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Being Charis<\/a>. She suffers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spondylitis.org\/Overview\" target=\"_blank\">Ankylosing Spondylitis<\/a> (AS), a horribly painful degenerative disease. And she is fighting to get disability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On Tuesday, 2\/27\/18, the day of her hearing before a disability judge, she wrote<\/strong> (quoted with permission):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"365\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/esdon-on-teamorange\/openquote4-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/openquote41.gif\" data-orig-size=\"65,96\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"openquote4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/openquote41.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/openquote41.gif\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-365\" src=\"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/openquote41.gif\" alt=\"openquote4\" width=\"65\" height=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On March 10, 2016 I applied for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).<\/p>\n<p>I was denied on June 6th, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>I appealed this decision.<\/p>\n<p>I was denied again on August 25th, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>I appealed again.<\/p>\n<p>Two nearly immediate denials are pretty standard for the disability process. Two nearly-immediate denials are more common than approvals.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, <strong>10,000 people died while waiting for disability <\/strong>[emphasis mine]. In 2017, <strong>45% of applicants were approved across the nation, and most of those were after waiting 2 years or more for a decision<\/strong> [emphasis mine]. There is a shortage of Administrative Law Judges, partly due to cuts to the Social Security Administration &#8211; this is why it takes so long to get a hearing. The huge backlog of people waiting will only continue to grow because of continued cuts to the Social Security Administration; all this at a time when the baby boomer generation is aging and applying at a higher rate than past generations simply because there are more of them.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;m one of the lucky ones just to have gotten a hearing this &#8220;quickly,&#8221; even though there&#8217;s no guarantee of a positive outcome.<\/p>\n<p>So, today, nearly two years after my application I will go before an Administrative Law Judge for a hearing on my case.<\/p>\n<p>The judge assigned to my case had a disability approval rate in 2017 of 30%, down from 51% in 2010. (<strong><span style=\"color: #77287b;\">dSavannah note<\/span>:<\/strong> This means that the judge <strong>denied<\/strong> 70% of cases last year, but only denied 49% of cases in 2010. That&#8217;s a <em>huge<\/em> jump in denials.)<\/p>\n<p>I am broken. I am desperate. And I likely won&#8217;t know for a few months what has been decided for me about my future &#8211; good or bad. But this hearing is finally here. The only relief I have about today is that it will be over soon, and then I wait. Again. But this time I&#8217;m waiting for a final answer.<\/p>\n<p>After this hearing is over I will have done all I could have done. In a few months I will know if it was enough.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And here is where I admit publicly, something I have done very little of, that I too am in this process. <strong><span style=\"color: #77287b;\">That I am disabled.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been embarrassed to talk about it. It&#8217;s embarrassing &#8211; tho it shouldn&#8217;t be &#8211; to admit that I have had to quit <em>three<\/em> jobs due to my health. That I&#8217;m no longer a &#8220;functioning&#8221; member of society, as our society measures it. That I&#8217;m now 95% housebound, and about 50% bedbound.<\/p>\n<p>That I&#8217;ve lost practically everything that makes me who I am. That I&#8217;ve lost all of my successful careers (marketing, teaching at the college level, art, and writing\/editing) because my brain and my body don&#8217;t work anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to apply for disability, but I was urged to by several people. And I&#8217;ve only worsened since I first applied, so I&#8217;m thankful I did, because there is no way I could handle the details now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is what I wrote on Facebook in response to Charis&#8217;s post:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"365\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/esdon-on-teamorange\/openquote4-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/openquote41.gif\" data-orig-size=\"65,96\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"openquote4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/openquote41.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/openquote41.gif\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-365\" src=\"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/openquote41.gif\" alt=\"openquote4\" width=\"65\" height=\"96\" \/>Think getting disability insurance is easy?\u00a0 Think again. It is hard. And humiliating. And inhumane. And takes years.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t like to talk about it, because I don\u2019t want to admit I can\u2019t work. That my illnesses have broken me and stolen my skills and my brain and my health and my life.<\/p>\n<p>But they have.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to admit that I need help.<\/p>\n<p>But I do.<\/p>\n<p>I had my hearing in front of a disability judge on Monday, 2\/26\/18, after first applying in June, 2015 and getting two denials.\u00a0(<span style=\"color: #77287b;\"><b>dSavannah note<\/b><\/span>: this office denied 53% of cases in 2017. I&#8217;m frightened of my odds.)<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t been able to work since December 2014. That means ZERO income since then. Savings gone. Lots of medical debt on my credit card.<\/p>\n<p>If it weren\u2019t for my husband and those of you who kindly donated to my gofundme campaign a few years back, I would not be here.<\/p>\n<p>In plain English: I would have killed myself.<\/p>\n<p>So next time you start ranting about lazy people taking advantage of the system: stop.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been working since I was 10 years old. Paid my way since I was 14. Paid my way through college and undergrad. Worked my ass off. Everything I own, I earned. I\u2019m the quintessential \u201cpulled myself up by my bootstraps\u201d story.<\/p>\n<p>Only to get sick. To become disabled.<\/p>\n<p>And now I wait some more (likely til June!) for a decision if the state of Georgia will award me benefits.<\/p>\n<p>And even an approval doesn\u2019t mean the insurance couldn\u2019t be taken away.<\/p>\n<p>This could be you someday.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To learn more about Charis, please visit her <a href=\"https:\/\/beingcharis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> or her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BeingCharis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>. Ways to support her can be found on this <a href=\"https:\/\/beingcharis.com\/support-this-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are disabled or have chronic illnesses, this blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/howtogeton.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">How To Get On<\/a>, gives a lot of helpful tips on getting on <a href=\"https:\/\/howtogeton.wordpress.com\/about-the-artist\/social-security-disability\/\" target=\"_blank\">disability<\/a>, as well as other tips on getting help with <a href=\"https:\/\/howtogeton.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/26\/how-to-get-enough-food-stamps-to-actually-eat\/\" target=\"_blank\">food<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/howtogeton.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/18\/how-to-get-a-doctor-even-when-you-have-no-money-or-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\">medical care<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/howtogeton.wordpress.com\/homebound-housebound-bedridden\/\" target=\"_blank\">being homebound<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to support me and my habit of eating, taking medications, trying to stay sane, and going to doctors, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hDwSl9\" target=\"_blank\">buy me something off my amazon wish list<\/a> (which includes medical things and fun things) or <a href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/dsavannah\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"asold\">send a few dollars to my PayPal account<\/span><\/a>. (I have resisted putting ads on my blog, but I am going to have to as soon as I can figure out how to help pay for hosting, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>And finally, I literally copied the posts off Facebook once Charis gave me permission to quote her, then added my additional notes today, and I&#8217;m hitting &#8220;publish&#8221; regardless of my trepidation. (And possible typos.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a hard topic for me to write about, but: it&#8217;s important. 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