I am not sure if I am allowed to post the link to the article in Forbes but I pasted the article's headline in the title bar of this message. If you google the headline, the article should not be difficult to find. More outlets are picking up this issue too, so you should be able to find the story posted online by multiple publishers.
I was approved for SSDI on Aug 1, 2019 after waiting almost 3 years for a hearing. I have MS, Degenerative Disc Disease and several prior spinal surgeries, 10 surgeries to the left knee and cartilage tears in my hip. I broke my ankle when I fell down the stairs shortly before my SSDI hearing. MS causes me debilitating fatigue, severe heat intolerance, balance issues and cognitive impairment. So I had a combination of issues.
I was also approved for a closed period of SSDI a few years before this approval. The prior determination found I met the MS listing 11.09 and also the Musculoskeletal listing 1.04.
I never bothered to read my recent approval letter until that article made me aware of potential policy changes. Now I have read my entire Approval letter and it is scary. Throughout the approval, the ALJ wrote that I was capable of sedentary work. She also wrote that I met none of the listings without taking all of my impairments into consideration, although she found my condition to be severe.
I was approved for SSDI as a step 5 claimant. The application of vocational rules is what garnered my approval. I am 56, educated and did professional work (no physical work) but I fall into the step 5 category of SSDI beneficiary because my approval was granted using the grid rules.
Included with my Approval letter was a statement informing me that I would be up for review in 5-7 years. This will likely change for me if the proposed policy changes targeting Step 5 beneficiaries is instituted. Instead, I will likely be up for review every 2 years.
Frequent reviews will be difficult for many Step 5 SSDI Beneficiaries to accommodate, as many are children and/or older people from 50-65 years of age.
There is open commenting on this proposed change until January 2020. After locating the Forbes article, they have some hot text embedded in the article that will take you to the Federal Register site where you will see a green button labeled Submit a Formal Comment. Clicking the button will take you further down the page where you will be presented with multiple options for commenting on the proposed changes to the "Rules Regarding the Frequency and Notice of Continuing Disability Reviews"
I was approved for SSDI on Aug 1, 2019 after waiting almost 3 years for a hearing. I have MS, Degenerative Disc Disease and several prior spinal surgeries, 10 surgeries to the left knee and cartilage tears in my hip. I broke my ankle when I fell down the stairs shortly before my SSDI hearing. MS causes me debilitating fatigue, severe heat intolerance, balance issues and cognitive impairment. So I had a combination of issues.
I was also approved for a closed period of SSDI a few years before this approval. The prior determination found I met the MS listing 11.09 and also the Musculoskeletal listing 1.04.
I never bothered to read my recent approval letter until that article made me aware of potential policy changes. Now I have read my entire Approval letter and it is scary. Throughout the approval, the ALJ wrote that I was capable of sedentary work. She also wrote that I met none of the listings without taking all of my impairments into consideration, although she found my condition to be severe.
I was approved for SSDI as a step 5 claimant. The application of vocational rules is what garnered my approval. I am 56, educated and did professional work (no physical work) but I fall into the step 5 category of SSDI beneficiary because my approval was granted using the grid rules.
Included with my Approval letter was a statement informing me that I would be up for review in 5-7 years. This will likely change for me if the proposed policy changes targeting Step 5 beneficiaries is instituted. Instead, I will likely be up for review every 2 years.
Frequent reviews will be difficult for many Step 5 SSDI Beneficiaries to accommodate, as many are children and/or older people from 50-65 years of age.
There is open commenting on this proposed change until January 2020. After locating the Forbes article, they have some hot text embedded in the article that will take you to the Federal Register site where you will see a green button labeled Submit a Formal Comment. Clicking the button will take you further down the page where you will be presented with multiple options for commenting on the proposed changes to the "Rules Regarding the Frequency and Notice of Continuing Disability Reviews"
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