06-30-2020, 01:23 PM
(06-28-2020, 10:12 PM)forrealone Wrote: No, there is no shame there. It is like you giving yourself what you need to be able to do what you can. Remember social security disability is simply getting your social security early. Your amount will be whatever you would draw at 65. After 24 months from date of disability onset, you then have medicare (health insurance). We all pay for this with all that money they have deducted from our paychecks all of our lives. It ain't welfare.
I have helped many people wade through the challenge of applying for disability. So, I understand the process, all of it. When my husband went on disability, he was ashamed at first. Then, he was grateful.
She's right, you know. With all of the regulations, we pay for and benefit from welfare in too many ways to keep track. Getting back any money you put in the system is one of the simplest ways to show you're really NOT getting welfare but just receiving back what was taken.
We can leave the discussion of fiat currency in that other thread we have going