League_Girl wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
I don't feel, in the US, that there are very many people who have been approved for SSI solely for having an Asperger's/ASD Level One diagnosis.
I'm on it for that diagnosis but I am on it too for OCD and anxiety. How SSI works is you have to prove how disabled you are, not what diagnosis you have. They go by level of impairment, not by diagnosis. That is what I read in a blog about it by someone who works for the Social Security Administration.
Thank you...
A person can have cerebral palsy, which is a disability, and SSI can deny them. There are people with CP that can hold full time jobs. There are people with ASD that hold down full time jobs, just like people with blindness, bipolar disorder etc.
ASD IS already in the SSA blue book of diagnosis for adults.
https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professi ... .htm#12_10Where people get cranky is they believe ASD automatically qualifies them for benefits. It doesn't.
If and when you get SSA benefits is based the phase of the moon (that's a joke), luck of the draw of the reviewer, the state you live in, county you live in and luck of the draw of the judge hearing your review. So Buff maybe get SSI/SSDI and he lives in NY. Biff gets denied 3 times and he lives in Michigan. Both have Level I autism, but that's how it is at the moment.
SSA wants you to prove how disabled you are. They have never just handed over cash because you have (x) diagnosis.