TipBill
Senior member
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2014
- Messages
- 224
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 03/2014
- Country
- US
- State
- None
So as you all know my hearing before the judge is this Thursday and I am getting really nervous. He will be looking for any little thing he can find to deny me benefits and I am afraid I am going to say or do something that will be the one little thing he is looking for and he will deny my case.
Like I said I am nervous but I have made peace with myself. I have researched the matter and found that I have one of two options. I can file an appeal and wait another year for a decision which I am not going to do because only 2% of people get approved on appeal and the only way I could win is if they find that the judge made an error while reviewing my case. No judge is going to admit he made an error. I might get a different judge, I might not. My other option is to file a new claim. If I do that they are not going to look at my PAST medical records they are only going to look at my FUTURE medical records. So that means I would have to create a whole new paper trail. I do have a 33% chance that I will win if I file a new claim but I spoke with my local SSD department and was told that if I file a new claim I will lose all of my back pay that I have accrued to this point.
This has been two and a half years of my life spent fighting, running around, jumping through hoops trying to do everything that is asked of me by Social Security. No more fighting, I am done.
So win lose or draw I am going to walk out of the courthouse on Thursday knowing that this chapter of my life is over and I can put it behind me and move on.
Like I said I am nervous but I have made peace with myself. I have researched the matter and found that I have one of two options. I can file an appeal and wait another year for a decision which I am not going to do because only 2% of people get approved on appeal and the only way I could win is if they find that the judge made an error while reviewing my case. No judge is going to admit he made an error. I might get a different judge, I might not. My other option is to file a new claim. If I do that they are not going to look at my PAST medical records they are only going to look at my FUTURE medical records. So that means I would have to create a whole new paper trail. I do have a 33% chance that I will win if I file a new claim but I spoke with my local SSD department and was told that if I file a new claim I will lose all of my back pay that I have accrued to this point.
This has been two and a half years of my life spent fighting, running around, jumping through hoops trying to do everything that is asked of me by Social Security. No more fighting, I am done.
So win lose or draw I am going to walk out of the courthouse on Thursday knowing that this chapter of my life is over and I can put it behind me and move on.