I finally got to have a hearing in front of a judge about my application for social security disability. I have a favorable outcome from that. This only took 3 years after applying to get. I was officially disabled in Oct. of 2002. But the Award letter says that my benefits will only start in June of 2004 because you have to be disabled for 5 full calendar months in a row to get benefits. So, I guess my math skills are worse than I thought. What happened to 2003?
I have been trying to call the local SS office on Old Wake Forest Road for over a week. The line is busy. Yes busy. You don't even get an annoying voice mail system. You don't get a message saying that it is just too hard to get to talk to someone so maybe you should come into the office. No, just a busy signal.
I called the 1-800 number. They have an annoying voice mail system. The kind that tries to be your friend. It asks you questions. I told it that I needed to speak to a customer service representative (hey I would even talk to someone in India). She - the voice mail robot - got annoyed and tried to make me use the automated system. I said I needed to talk to someone, she said okay but you may have a long wait. I got transferred, it rang and said that all customer service representatives were busy and that I couldn't talk to anyone and it hung up on me. We should be ashamed of our government and the people who are in there now who did this to us.
I am just so disgusted. My next call will be to my representative Brad Miller to see if he can help me. And I guess I have to go in person to the local office and take a number.
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I just wanted to try out adding this image from my flickr account... and was able to. I am using Flock as my browser now so I think I can blog on blogger, keep my images on Flickr and keep track of other stuff.
