Hello,
Short version. My father applied for disability in 2009, but was rejected, despite all the evidence (he had diagnosed hepatitis C and worked with it for nearly ten years until he couldn't work at all, so he filed then, in 2009). Since that time, my mom and my sister and I worked to support him. He did not appeal the rejection at that time.
Last October, four days before he died, I got him a disability attorney and we filed all the paperwork again. He died very unexpectedly and was only 60. Very sad.
We filed all the paperwork and my mom had an appointment with the SSA person. It seems like maybe they will give backpay to the date he first applied in 2009 but they couldn't say for sure and wouldn't guarantee anything at all. They just said it would take 3-5 months for them to make a determination on his case.
Well, I need some expert advice, since our attorney hasn't given me much to go on here and didn't even phone in for the meeting with the SSA person like he said he would.
First, we need to know the likelihood of them paying the backpay. We need to know because we're drowning in the mortgage debt right now and if that salvation isn't on the horizon we might just have to sell the house. We're strapped trying to make these payments and have been for years.
My mom gets 930 per month as a survivor benefit. I get nothing because I am over 18.
Do you think that since we gave them all the medical records, and since he ended up dying, that they will confirm the backpay or not? Is there any way, if you think we'll get it, that we can calculate roughly what it might be? We need approximately 30k to pay off the mortgage, and then my mom could live in the house and be okay. Do you think this will happen or should I start breaking the news to her that we need to put the house on the market asap. I can struggle along with the mortgage, since I'm working two jobs, but really... I thought that's why my dad paid all that money into SS, so if something happened his wife and kids wouldn't be screwed. Once he was diagnosed with Hep C, the life insurance payments rose way too much every year, so we couldn't afford both those payments and the house payment.
Do you think there's any financial salvation on the horizon or have we just been staying afloat too long and should just cut ties with the home and move my mom to an apartment?
Thanks,
That New Guy
Short version. My father applied for disability in 2009, but was rejected, despite all the evidence (he had diagnosed hepatitis C and worked with it for nearly ten years until he couldn't work at all, so he filed then, in 2009). Since that time, my mom and my sister and I worked to support him. He did not appeal the rejection at that time.
Last October, four days before he died, I got him a disability attorney and we filed all the paperwork again. He died very unexpectedly and was only 60. Very sad.
We filed all the paperwork and my mom had an appointment with the SSA person. It seems like maybe they will give backpay to the date he first applied in 2009 but they couldn't say for sure and wouldn't guarantee anything at all. They just said it would take 3-5 months for them to make a determination on his case.
Well, I need some expert advice, since our attorney hasn't given me much to go on here and didn't even phone in for the meeting with the SSA person like he said he would.
First, we need to know the likelihood of them paying the backpay. We need to know because we're drowning in the mortgage debt right now and if that salvation isn't on the horizon we might just have to sell the house. We're strapped trying to make these payments and have been for years.
My mom gets 930 per month as a survivor benefit. I get nothing because I am over 18.
Do you think that since we gave them all the medical records, and since he ended up dying, that they will confirm the backpay or not? Is there any way, if you think we'll get it, that we can calculate roughly what it might be? We need approximately 30k to pay off the mortgage, and then my mom could live in the house and be okay. Do you think this will happen or should I start breaking the news to her that we need to put the house on the market asap. I can struggle along with the mortgage, since I'm working two jobs, but really... I thought that's why my dad paid all that money into SS, so if something happened his wife and kids wouldn't be screwed. Once he was diagnosed with Hep C, the life insurance payments rose way too much every year, so we couldn't afford both those payments and the house payment.
Do you think there's any financial salvation on the horizon or have we just been staying afloat too long and should just cut ties with the home and move my mom to an apartment?
Thanks,
That New Guy
Disability Benefits: Disability Back Pay when Person Has Died After Being Rejected the First Time
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