Last February, I hired a lawyer to get disability. I have been denied 3 times so now it goes to court . I am in Ohio this is how it works I guess. I didnt get to see my lawyer so I could apply for the hearing. They have given me 15 days here to send in a letter I thought I had sent in after I saw my lawyer. They are saying they didnt get it. And want a reason why they didnt get it in the time they said I had. And now I cant for the life of me remember why I was late . What do I say? I want the hearing yet. But I dont want to make up some white lie if you know what I mean? What should I do now?

Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions or help. Sorry if I am vague here. Tired and sorta worried .

Beth

hi , your lawyer should have sent in the letter, thats what he is being paid for.

Well it looks as though it may be up to me. I called the lawyer and he is out of the office this week. I hate this. I am not good at wording things. I left a message for him to call me back ASAP. It would be nice if he could take care of this lol.

I also called some of my doctors as my lawyer told me I need to get evals from them. But they are telling me that they need a written request from the lawyer or SSA for this stuff. I cant just request it myself.

Luckily I was on a search this morning for the paper the lawyer gave me of a list of things I need to do. And he had on there the reasons why this didnt get filed in time. So I dont need to tell a white lie. Whew! My memory is shot.. and I couldnt remember the reasons for the life of me.

Thanks Joe for the reply.

Ohhh dear lord... I just talked to my attorney and he didnt realize that I had decided to hire him!!!! This was back on Feb 26th!! So I gott get this letter in to SSA myself. And then within the next couple weeks I need to make an appt with him to get paperwork done so he can take over this stuff. OMG... why why am I so dumb about this stuff!?!?!?! I realize now that I didnt sign anything when there... guess I just thought he knew.. Will someone just write STUPID on my forehead please!?! LOLHum:

you have a lot on your mind, dont be so hard on yourself......actually you could use this as an example of why you cant work

Thanks again Joe.. but still I should be able to keep it together . I need to , its not going to get any better because I had to go off all 13 of my meds this week due to a drop of income . I need to get alot figured out.

This sounds similar to the troubles I am having, although my troubles are with my lawyer holding my paperwork from my LTD Insurance company for 3 weeks before calling me and saying he isn't taking my case. He had my paper work in hand for 3 weeks, and never returned my calls or emails, then responded to basically tell me he wouldn't take the case.

He didn't even want to talk about the case, or how incomplete the data he had. He had nothing past March of this year, and since that time I have had numerous tests, with profound results. It showed I had Pernicious Anemia. Imagine my shock when he told me a judge wouldn't pay any attention to another doctor that I get who has a conflicting opinion with a doctor who gave me an unfavorable/inaccurate diagnosis. How cab that be?

I am beside myself, and I too have trouble thinking, so just remembering where to find phone numbers is a challenge, and where the records are etc...