NeuroTalk Support Groups - Disability Hearing Experience

Judge Wallis was very nice and very professional. My hearing went very well, so well in fact that when he gave his first hypothetical, the VE listed two or three jobs, when he gave his second hypothetical, the VE stated no jobs. He asked my attorney if she would like to cross examine him or make a closing argument and she apparently thought there was no need. It seemed like a done deal, she was happy and said I had done well. Three months later I get an Unfavorable Decision wherein Judge Wallis impugns my integrity and picks and chooses what he wants out of my medical record. I was livid. I got a letter from my attorney stating that though she disagreed with the judges conclusions, she felt she no longer could be of assistance to me. When I told my psychiatrist that I was once again denied, he was surprised and did not understand why I was not approved.

Judge Wallis provides and almost dead even fifty/fifty split between positive and negative outcomes, which statistically, is highly improbable and very questionable. It smacks of working on the basis of maintaining a quota, which, as we all know, is illegal, discriminatory, and a violation of civil rights. Truly, it victimizes the people who are most vulnerable and in need of help.

I personally paid over $35,000 into Social Security, and my employers paid an additional $15,000 on my behalf as required by law, over the course of my working years. This money is the amount of "premiums" I have paid to have this disability "insurance," should I need it. I am not asking for a handout, I paid for it over a lot of years of hard work. It should not be nearly impossible for me to obtain the benefit I am legally and ethically entitled to.

So I have filed a new claim, as I believe that filing an appeal with the Appeals Council takes years with very little chance of success. And if you are successful, they just remand your case back down to the judge who screwed you over in the first place.

I am prospecting a new attorney, one who works exclusively with SSI/SSDI cases, and this time I will have so much documentation and substantiation that my case could not possibly be denied by a fair and honest examiner. I will have no less than 500 pages, yes, a ream of paper, in my file.

I have already begun to make contact with State and Federal officials to assist in investigating and facilitating this matter.

RWD