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Meistersinger
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01 Aug 2013, 1:12 am

That pretty much sums up why my youngest brother and his wife refuse to go to court to overturn SSA's decision to stop SSI on their youngest son. It's also why they never had their diagnosed. They have several thousand to pay back, no thanks to some boob of a bureaucrat in Baltimore at the SSA Security Blvd Office. I gave them a list of attorneys that deal with SSI cases and children, but they want nothing to do with attorneys, or even any form of government help. Frankly, they side with the Tea Party Republicans, who would throw the baby out with the bath water, when it comes to spending and entitlements.



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05 Aug 2013, 12:15 pm

pezar wrote:
In the US, there is no system. Period. The disabled are on their own, apart from exhortations to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and "overcome your challenges". Doing so is expected to be accomplished without any outside help. Even SSI is seen as govt interference in people's independence. The disabled are believed by many to be faking it for sympathy, and are constantly told to stop doing so.


This is why I was forced to bring my severely autistic son who was born in the USA to the UK.

I can put up with a bit of jargon for the sake of the wonderful care he gets here. You can't truly appreciate the NHS and UK social services until you have lived without them. I was in the USA for ten years. I would not go back. I could have had citizenship but didn't want it.