I remember being put on it as soon as I finished High School, and my Dad and my Doctor decided there's no chance in me getting a job. Since my Dad was also a doctor, two signatures got me in, and I got my first check when I turned legal age. I wanted to get a real job, but the "system" decided for me that I can't work.
Then as I started looking for an apartment, I found out they'd signed me into a Home for the Handicapped, declaring me as unfit to live independantly, all because I have epilepsy.
In there I met a woman who also has epilepsy and we started dating which soon lead to kissing and "your room or mine?". The Staff tried to stop it, but as we're adults, we kept going out together, until the Police were notified. I was then sent to the Sex Offenders Program, to understand why and accept that it's wrong for people with disabilities to be anything other than just friends.
Still living on Disability Income, classed Unemployable, and Not allowed to be in a Relationship. And yet people tell me to live a long happy life?
Matthew
--- In epilepsy@yahoogroups.com, Kelly Porter <kellyporter@...> wrote:
>
> SSDI (social security disability) payments are based on what you have
> earned during your work history. It is a highly complicated process
> because it is based on your earnings over time and how much you have
> paid into the system. You will not receive how much you were making
> when you stopped working, because as a general rule no one has earned
> that same amount the entire time they have worked. How much you made
> when you were 16 effects your benefits. At the same time, the longer
> you work generally the higher this amount will become because in later
> years of working most people earn more it so it makes the amount go up.
> Using me as an example, I started working at 16, and stopped at 35.
> The amount I receive is about 30% of the salary I was making when I left
> work. As anyone can see, if your salary has grown over time, your
> benefit will not match that because the years you paid in much less
> still count in the calculation.
>
> The average payment is around $1100, but can range from $100 up to close
> to $2000 a month. Keep in mind, if someone receiving SSDI payments has
> minor children, under 18, they receive benefits based on yours, at 1/2
> of that amount. So for example, if your benefit amount is $800 a month
> each of your minor children get $400 a month paid to you. If you have
> minor children you are required every year to report the "amount of
> benefits spent on their care".
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Kelly
>
> On 10/2/2010 10:05 PM, Dave Fales wrote:
> > out of curiosity how do they figure out how much to pay each month I know
> > if I was paying rent or if my house wasn’t paid off and I was paying
> > payments there would be no way I would be able to pay the rent or payments
> > they should pay more then they do do they pay every one the same amount or
> > how do they determine the amount they pay
>
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