Originally Posted by shawn33

Hi Bobby,
Now I'm on SSDI too, and have been for 8 to 10 years. You don't have to have all he disabilities in the world. You just have to have one and the doctors message that he doesn't want you working right now to have a strong case to stay in it. Now SS sends the message to my neurologist to get her message on if I'm still disabled. But at first I had to go to the SSA office to see their doctor to get checked out. So if you can get your neck specialist and your general practice doctor to both send SSDI a note on how you're still not doing good enough to get back out in the working world. Then SSDI gets hit hard on keeping you.
But it won't surprise me if SSA is doing all they can to kick people out of disability coverage. That's because a couple years ago bush told SS to no longer accept people like they were into SSDI because it would hurt his war budget over the years. Now when they say you have the right to a hearing, that sounds like court; but it's not. All you get is the talk with a high ranking supervisor in SS. I heard that on the news too when they reported what bush ordered SSA to do. But since you're already in it, and hearing from both doctors. That should hit them hard enough on having to keep you. But I'm not a doctor, that's just my opinion because I'm in it too because of severe epilepsy for 16 years.