Bureaucracy

Several months ago I felt like I needed to be on disability, but instead I took another job. After this job ended in September I decided that The Lord really was leading me towards state disability so that I could get my medical condition under control and get back into the workforce. I've always had medical issues but with new and more stress piled on the issues get worse. I applied and when I went I check on my paperwork they told me "oh everything's fine. It's ready to go but we can't do anything because your dr forgot a date". So I sent the paperwork for correction to my dr. A few days later I got letters for referral to psychiatry and neurology. That was a good thing since I've been having seizures for 9 yrs and the drs have refused to send me to a neurologist. I rushed to the psych referral and was told "oh we can't do anything until you're cleared by a neurologist." I've kept in close contact with my dietician the whole time and I think she's about ready to blow to. She told me to call neurology and beg for an appt ASAP. Ive called a dozen times and its say "the voicemail you have reached is full and is not accepting any new messages". So here i am without income since Sept 25, in temporary housing until April, living off platelet donation, a few childcare gigs, and the wonderful people at my church. My church pays for my counseling. My platelets pay my phone bill. And my very limited and dwindling savings pay my credit card, transportation, and medical expenses. I know God will provide. But I really just want to take those ridiculous bureaucratic zombies and shake them.

Praying for you

Jordache, I've been through this also. In addition to patience, the only way to get it done is to take complete control over every detail of the application process. You have to follow up every time someone tells you they will do something on your behalf. Very few, even Doctors, follow through, at least in a timely manner. Don't worry about being a pest, follow up. Successful disability is a management function. We depend on the professionals to help and they only do when PUSHED. Then there's the issue of the government employees doing things properly and on time. They also require continuous follow up.

Also, IF you are applying for disability with Social Security, check into the Ticket to Work Program. You can work while receiving disability and agencies will pay for many expenses for you to better your employment position, even school and the tools you need to be employed or start a business.

I'm praying for your needs, Jorache.

49% of all Americans are now receiving benefits from the government according to the U.S. Census Bureau (1) . Add to that 23 million full-time government employees.

(1) http://www.census.gov/sipp/tables/quarterly-est/household-char/2010/3-qtr/table2.xls

Forcibly taxing us further puts a great strain on us in the middle of a Great Recession with a trillion a year defict (which could be reduced by cutting spending and levying a value added tax on foreign made goods without raising taxes).

Some of us have deformed hands with terrible rheumatoid arthritis and live in pain every day of our lives yet we filed a new business permit down at city hall and walked through office complexes knocking on doors of businesses cold-calling, networking in our communities, and praying to drum up enough business to at least survive.

Meanwhile, large numbers of the poorest that can't make it in their own countries illegally cross in every year and have as many kids as possible to get the welfare and government benefits rolling in.

In my state, between 1985 and 2005, 10 million immigrants poured in. Only 150,000 of them ever filed a state tax return. Meanwhile, 2.5 million middle-class taxpayers just picked up and left the state. They didn't want to pay the highest taxes in the nation anymore to support the takers.

Now, the public education system is 3rd from the bottom in the nation (used to be first in the nation); the welfare system is completely broken down in some large counties; and recently cities have begun filing bankruptcy. There's no money for payroll in some of these cities anymore.

The politicans shipped tens of millions of jobs overseas along with all of our innovation. They literally hollowed out the domestic labor market to foreign shores. And the jobs that remain are low-paying ones with a new study showing that 81% of all new job growth in this country went to foreign workers (2).

(2) Who Got Jobs During the Obama Presidency? | Center for Immigration Studies

On top of that they removed all Tarriffs and value-added taxes from foreign made goods while allowing every other country to maintain their own!

What a mess. I remember when companies would bend over backwards to ensure people with disabilities could work from home because they needed our labor that much. Not anymore! They have been letting people go by the millions since 2008. Too much labor... not enough demand for it.

I hope you don't take this wrong because I'm sure your condition is serious or you wouldn't be asking for prayer for disability.

I just wish families would take care of their own instead of forcibly taxing the rest of us, who are barely making it ourselves, or ignorant greedy politicians would fix the economy instead of ruining it further.

That said, Lord please help this precious sister who has serious medical issues and life needs to find the economic stability she needs and desires. In Jesus name, Amen.

Jordache, I do not believe you are a moocher.

I hope that God will provide your needs.

Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Well said. I don't believe she is either. I do support disability for those that really need it. I just wish things weren't so messed up and deteriorating in this nation that people who really need it could get it in a timely manner and that the rest of us were able to prosper once again.

Prayers continue sweetheart
May God Bless you

I can proudly say I am not a moocher. I have lived off nothing many times before. I was a welfare child. I filled out the paperwork with my mom when I was a little girl. My medical condition required me to have medi-cal in addition to my dads insurance. I pinched pennies. I've always known intuitively how to live within a budget. My disability is such that I cannot continue working without getting it under control. Because of several lid circumstances I've been unable to manage it for many years, and its worsening. I will not be on disability forever. I am fully capable of working once I can get a few things in place and see a few good blood tests.

Hugs Jordache, went through this with my daughter.
Everything was held up for months, because their assigned dr forgot to report that her medical records were stolen from his car.
Just keep plugging along, it will all work out soon.
You remain in my prayers in Jesus.

Hugs and God bless
pickles