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Today was my intake interview. I had to go down to the Social Security Office, and sit for two hours with a man who appeared to be typing in all my answers from the form, then scanning the same form 
There's actually not all that much to report. He just takes the information in, and sends it off to the Disability Determination Office, where they look at the medical evidence that I submitted, and they will be interviewing me again by questionnaire, apparently.
You have got to love the government. I was told I would be receiving a Denial letter immediately for SSI benefits (that's the poverty program), which I did not and am not and could not possibly apply for. But apparently there's a rule, that I have to be denied that first before they consider my SSD application. Then the other wacko government rule was: Medical records from one of my doctors could be scanned and emailed over to the other office, but the other doctor's records had to be mailed, because there's a rule that you can only scan 20 pages of records per doctor. This is idiotic because the only cost to increased scanning would be disk storage space, which is incredibly cheap. So they'll mail this, and then the next office will probably photocopy it, and the whole thing will cost more money, but at least it will have been done according to regulations!
So I feel pretty relaxed right now. I've done everything I can do for the moment, and I probably won't hear from them for about a month, and that won't be a determination either. Nothing for me to do but sit here and collect the short term disability until it runs out in the end of April. There ought to be an icon for "twiddling thumbs."
There's actually not all that much to report. He just takes the information in, and sends it off to the Disability Determination Office, where they look at the medical evidence that I submitted, and they will be interviewing me again by questionnaire, apparently.You have got to love the government. I was told I would be receiving a Denial letter immediately for SSI benefits (that's the poverty program), which I did not and am not and could not possibly apply for. But apparently there's a rule, that I have to be denied that first before they consider my SSD application. Then the other wacko government rule was: Medical records from one of my doctors could be scanned and emailed over to the other office, but the other doctor's records had to be mailed, because there's a rule that you can only scan 20 pages of records per doctor. This is idiotic because the only cost to increased scanning would be disk storage space, which is incredibly cheap. So they'll mail this, and then the next office will probably photocopy it, and the whole thing will cost more money, but at least it will have been done according to regulations!
So I feel pretty relaxed right now. I've done everything I can do for the moment, and I probably won't hear from them for about a month, and that won't be a determination either. Nothing for me to do but sit here and collect the short term disability until it runs out in the end of April. There ought to be an icon for "twiddling thumbs."
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