For those on SSI

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It only took my mother one time to sign me up for it and they approved me.

congrats, getting on ssi is like whinning the lottery i think. f those fers back

I got on SDRI(22 years worth of working credit but seriously underemployed)
and SSI. I get $634 SDRI(survivors, disability, retirement Insurance) due
to earning working credits. I get $9 SSI. The SSP(state supplement payment)
is whatever your SSI is + max of $856 in California and Close to that in Minnesota.
$798 is a minium. What really sucks is I make more on SSI then working.

$3k a year for over 15 years and 7 off-years at $5k-$10k. I tried to keep
those jobs, or knew I was to be homeless because of the aspie issues, that
I am grateful to be able to see school and not worry about the rent. I am 41
and in 9 years a college degree is a I-CAN-DO-IT challenge.

This is why I am glad to look past aspie-pt job = homelessness and paying taxes.

I have worked so many years I'd get lots of money. I applied on the basis of both AS and a severe shoulder injury that prevents me from being a nurse, they turned me down saying I could work at a different job. I've protested and am awaiting their response.

well they'll just look at your work history and deny you, if youve held a job for years you are able to work.

Is SSI the equivalent to the DSP (Disability Support Pension) that we get in Australia?

I went to apply for the default Allowance when I left work, it was found out I'm autistic and so I get the DSP. I didn't have to argue and fight for it, I'm lucky. I now have a part-time job supplemented by the DSP.

I was told by the attorney that is handling my appeal is that pretty much everbody gets denied SSI the first time, but most eventually get it.

My mother was surprised I got approved the first time. At first I didn't even want to have it because I didn't think I would need it but then I'm glad she signed me up for it or I would have never lived on my own and be out here in Oregon. I'd still be stuck in Montana dead beat being depressed. Right now I'd be talking to my parents contantly about going back to school and going to school like in Spokane or going to Portland and going to school there.

Actually, SSI isn't that hard to get approved for. SSI has nothing to do with whether you worked before and how much you paid in.

SSDI (which is something different) is what's hard to get approved for. That's the one where they take into account how much you've paid into the system.

Many people who get SSDI also get SSI though. Some people just get SSI and some just get SSDI. I don't qualify for SSI because I own a car worth more than $5,000 (or something like that). I'm working on applying for SSDI though.

My father-in-law works for Social Security and he said that they deny pretty much everybody for SSDI twice.

I own a car and it was 9,000 when my parents got it and I only had to pay a thousand for it. It was salvaged. Now I don't qualify for it anymore right now (just had the appointment today) because I am working full time but I can still get medicare and food stamps and I still have to send in my pay stubs still and when my hours get cut back, just let them know. I don't know if I will qualify again when I find my own place to live. The person there told me there is assisant for it like secion 8 to help pay for the rent, there are other programs that will help me live on my own. Luckily I want to go back to school so I am not too worried.

I applied for SSI 3 times over the past decade, with the different dx's I was given before. Got dx'd AS this time, and was approved (after interminable year of waiting for reply). Have no work history to speak of, so not qualified/eligible for SSDI. If I marry my boyfriend (he's gainfully employed & has an income), I'll lose my financial status for SSI-so we're staying single, alas.
OTOH, I can understand the rule about not having excess resources. OTOH, everyone tells us we all must save for retirement (or an emergency)-yet that's disallowed under these circumstances.

I'm on SSI.

I only had to apply once and it took two months to get approved. It was a relatively painless process with me having to attend two interviews to see if I was in such a state to get disability.

I'm on SSI too.

The ignorant guy who tested me and asked me a bunch of questions said that I didn't need SSI and that I could work. My case was going to go to court but someone (I'm not sure how these things work, so I don't know if this was the judge or some kind of case worker or what) looked over my records and saw that I had been having problems socializing and coping with normal life since I was a child. I didn't have to go to court, and I still got my SSI. I hope to be able to get a normal job someday and quit my SSI however.

Can you get approved if you live with your guardians?
I have applied before but got rejected. I don't understand how it works.
Someone told me I should have been recieving benefits when I became an orphan.

Sophrosyne, your guardians would've been getting the social security to take care of you. If not, there's back ss waiting for you.

I am on SSDI because of a physical disability. I hate it because I am used to working.

I am back at uni, working for a doctorate. I am going to get off of SSDI, because I do have skills I can develop and use. I'm lucky to have friends in the field I want to teach in who can mentor me.

It took one time, and it took about five months.