Originally Posted by LIT LOVE

Whenever you post either here or on other websites, you always state that you've been pursuing your SSDI claim since you were 50, that it's been 9 years, and you usually fail to mention that you started a second application after not following through on the first one--which is a very different scenario.

It will be significantly more difficult to prove you've been disabled since you first applied 9 years ago, than proving you've been disabled since your latest Alleged Onset Date (which is even later than the Alleged Onset Date listed when you filed your second application.)

It will make things easier at your hearing if you concentrate on the period beginning with your current Alleged Onset Date. Why waste time proving you should have qualified 9 years ago, when you're not currently eligible for benefits from 9 years ago? BTW, you really should know why your attorney chose your current Alleged Onset Date. In all likelihood, you started seeing a new doctor or have better documentation starting with that date.

Your attorney chose a later Alleged Onset Date to make your approval easier. If you don't understand the strategy behind that new date, it leaves you completely dependent on B&B, and they have not proven themselves to you thus far, from what you've expressed.

If you are denied at your ALJ hearing, and if you still wish to pursue your original claim from 2006, than I've provided info that might allow you to do so.