I have no reason to fight on, my claim has been denied, my insured status expired this past December, thus I cannot file a new claim, the attorney will no longer consult with me, clearly he lied about bringing my case further if needed.
These are the hard realities of this terrible process, most if not all of the attorneys are liars, the ALJs are not really judges, rather they are just employees of SSA with a really, really powerful union behind them! I filled out a job application yesterday at a local Walmart, my neck locked in position after about 30-minutes of messing around with their job app computer, a terrifying & painful experience I can assure you.
This is an event both of my Doctors warned the SSA of in both of their RFCs, yet the judge refused to give this any standing in his opinion, choosing rather the opinion of an SSA doctor who'd never examined me let alone even talked with me or my doctors!
The truth is that your application for SSDI depends exclusively on whether your presiding SSA employee liked his/her dinner, or had some other pleasurable experience the night before, or some such thing.
I almost broke my neck filling out a job application, a possibility the judge cited as particularly lacking in credibility even though a board certified neurologist and my internist alerted him to it in the RFCs they submitted....I went before this man and had absolutely, positively, not the slightest chance of success, his mind was made up long before I stood before him, he's turning down between 6 & 7 out every 10 that come before him in fiscal 2010, this was nothing more than an opportunity for this evil man to make a political statement....
SSDI approvals are largely dependent upon what region of the country you call home, don'd believe me? Look at the data released by SSA and see for yourselves.....