Government shutdown reaches Day 27
There are about 450,000 Government employees who still have not been working as of today. The Trump administration continues to recall tens of thousands of workers after almost four weeks of closed doors at vital agencies.
Private contracting firms, that work with Government agencies, have been without work, and no back pay is guaranteed. Unlike furloughed Federal workers who will receive back pay. 800,000 Federal workers are going without pay during the shutdown.
At the IRS, 36,000 employees were asked to return to deal with tax season, About 1,700 FAA aviation safety inspectors were told to return after the agency ran preliminary safety tests and about 2,500 employees at the Agriculture Department will briefly return to process farm loans.
This month people receiving SNAP benefits (food stamps) will get February's in January some have already received them. Also, for Social Security and Disability the February checks will also be given before the end of January. However, there is no way of knowing how much longer this shutdown will continue and if it does not end by February's end SNAP and Social Security and Disability checks can not be guaranteed for March.
We, the People of this Great Nation known as the United States need Our officials to come to some type of resolution. I for one am for the wall if the money can be found. But we can NOT let our Government hold us hostage and even stop our rights to the very needs we have paid for as we worked, like our Social Security, Disability and benefits to those who actually need help with food and medical on the State level known as Health and Welfare. Many Seniors and Disabled just barely survive even when they get SNAP benefits. I really look around and see that other people who have not put into Social Security and yet they get the benefits, of those who have, at a very high amount. I have always believed that the Social Security we have paid in to while working should be put into an account with our names on them so when we retire, or become disabled at some time before retirement age, we are guaranteed Social Security/Disability benefits without having to jump through hoops and the Government saying "There is no more money in Social Security." Why? Because the Government decided to borrow all of it which now puts us at risk of it not being there when we need it. It is our money we paid in. It was not up for borrowing. This is my biggest pet peeve.
Showing posts with label Social Security. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Health/Medical Insurances And Disabilities:
Bidding my time on Disability until they can find out how to control my dizzy spells and what is causing my joint pain is not any fun. They keep this gal poked and prodded at least once to three times per week. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have three health insurance plans.
There are so many people out there without any health/medical insurance coverage or not enough. My husband has only one, it helps pay sixty to eighty percent--but we pay the difference. Except when it comes to his MS IV therapy which is once a month. He takes Tysabri; it's original cost before insurance is $5,124.00 for one treatment for one time per month for the rest of his life as long as it works. His insurance pays $2,120.00 and we must pay the difference.
My husband needs to go on disability but can't due to he will loose his only insurance and we can't survive on my little check of $640.00 per month for nine months while they determine if he's eligible. While determining eligibility the person applying for disability must have ZERO income. I don't know how the government expects people to survive for even a month on no income let alone up to nine months. Oh, of course they will back pay you, after they minus three months for the eligibility waiting time.
But what creditors, mortgage companies, grocery stores, car dealership, utility companies are going to wait up to nine months?..and then there's the chance you will be denied. Nobody waits and Medicaid won't help either until you have gotten your disability status from Medicare. If you are denied you have the right to appeal but that takes even more time. Also, when you get disability you are allowed to apply for SSI, Foodstamps, and State Medical assistance (it's Medicaid where we live). However, you are not entitled to Federal Medicare benefits until you have been on SSD (Social Security Disability) for Two entire years. Then you can finally have your secondary insurance--but in that case Medicare is then your primary and state medical secondary. It can be pretty confusing to those with limited capabilities of understanding. It is very tough to live on your SSD check and find doctors that will accept your state medical card alone (without you having a secondary insurance). And when you do the quality of care I believe is somewhat compromised in the fact that they know that you can't pay it or won't or that the state pays so darn little (which is very true).
My advice: Don't get sick without Medical Insurance or become disabled in America!
There are so many people out there without any health/medical insurance coverage or not enough. My husband has only one, it helps pay sixty to eighty percent--but we pay the difference. Except when it comes to his MS IV therapy which is once a month. He takes Tysabri; it's original cost before insurance is $5,124.00 for one treatment for one time per month for the rest of his life as long as it works. His insurance pays $2,120.00 and we must pay the difference.
My husband needs to go on disability but can't due to he will loose his only insurance and we can't survive on my little check of $640.00 per month for nine months while they determine if he's eligible. While determining eligibility the person applying for disability must have ZERO income. I don't know how the government expects people to survive for even a month on no income let alone up to nine months. Oh, of course they will back pay you, after they minus three months for the eligibility waiting time.
But what creditors, mortgage companies, grocery stores, car dealership, utility companies are going to wait up to nine months?..and then there's the chance you will be denied. Nobody waits and Medicaid won't help either until you have gotten your disability status from Medicare. If you are denied you have the right to appeal but that takes even more time. Also, when you get disability you are allowed to apply for SSI, Foodstamps, and State Medical assistance (it's Medicaid where we live). However, you are not entitled to Federal Medicare benefits until you have been on SSD (Social Security Disability) for Two entire years. Then you can finally have your secondary insurance--but in that case Medicare is then your primary and state medical secondary. It can be pretty confusing to those with limited capabilities of understanding. It is very tough to live on your SSD check and find doctors that will accept your state medical card alone (without you having a secondary insurance). And when you do the quality of care I believe is somewhat compromised in the fact that they know that you can't pay it or won't or that the state pays so darn little (which is very true).
My advice: Don't get sick without Medical Insurance or become disabled in America!
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Auto-Immune Disease: Menieres
Menieres
Living with Menieres is living with an invisible disability. As nobody can see you are disable like those who carry a cane when they have a stroke. They are noticed. Menieres is an auto-immune disease is like so many auto-immune disease in that it will strike when it wants and can also go in to remission similar to MS. Therefore, you can go happily along for weeks, months, even a year without any dizziness that is debilitating to the effect that it throws you off balance to cause you to stumble or even fall or make you to grab a wall to steady yourself. You can't drive when you are experiencing this type of dizziness as it can cause you to get into an accident. So you must then rely on others. You need assistance sometimes just to get back to your chair when it hits so suddenly that you feel as if the whole world is spinning out of control and the rug is being pulled out from under your feet. For three years I spent three times a week going into the Emergency room of the local hospital due to falls occurring from this dreadful disease. Ending up with minor sprains or even twisted ankles, sprained wrists, severe concussion/terrible headache (from hitting my head) or even a broken finger at times. At this point I almost gave up on having a normal existence and began wearing a home alert button around my neck to call the ambulance to my house, when I was alone, in case I fell and couldn't get up. I even had to have home health come in so someone would be here in case I got dizzy while I was in the shower, which happened at least fifty percent of the time. It was a dreadful way to live. Then I had TMJ surgery on my side that had the affected Menieres ear (where I lost part of my hearing due to Menieres) and the dizzy spells lessened. "Wow" I thought this is great. After eight months of only having small spells that lasted only five to six minutes. Instead of two hours to four days in length like before. I asked the doctor if he felt I could go back to work. I went back to work again. It felt great to work again.
Then about a month ago. BAM! Menieres reared it's ugly head again. And now I can no longer perform my duties at work as my work requires my use of sticking patients with needles and bending over. I can not with good conscious injure a patient. Therefore, I found a need to resign. I am devastated. Now I must once again struggle with this confounded invisible disability in which little is know as to what causes it. Not only am I plaqued by dizzy spells but by a variety of other aches, pains, my migraines have also worsened dispite the medication I am on, I have insomnia, and I am also continually fatiqued. My doctor has sent me to a specialist for testing for other auto-immune diseases such as lupus or fibrmyalgia. I got myself off of SSD while I was working and was proud of that fact. Now, I must go back on until it can be controlled again.
Many people in society do not understand nor think that you have should draw Social Security Disability if you don't seem to have a problem they can see. arAuto-Immune disease e such an illness that many people have no understanding/concept about as most are typically invisible until they have flare ups.I know their are alot of disabilities out there that society believes are all in our minds and that we are faking. Just because they are not visible like strokes and paraplegics etc. However, we must somehow educate society on the lesser known diseases and disabilities known as auto-immune or invisible in order for them to have an understanding of what we are undergoing. I hope by writing this in hopes of educating people about auto-immune diseases. I also hope to educate and make the public more aware that there are "real people" that are in "real need" due to "true, unseen disabilities" that are not trying to take advantage of the system. Some wish they didn't have to rely on Government Assistance for help, because in most cases it's not as much as they could earn if they were actually working. When I worked, during the time my Menieres was in remission, I made nearly three times what I had been receiving on SSD and brought home twice what I had been receiveing on SSD per month. Therefore, my lifestyle was of a much higher standard and I was much happier and not at all depressed. I still have hopes that I will again get everything once more "under control" and one day be "back to work."
Living with Menieres is living with an invisible disability. As nobody can see you are disable like those who carry a cane when they have a stroke. They are noticed. Menieres is an auto-immune disease is like so many auto-immune disease in that it will strike when it wants and can also go in to remission similar to MS. Therefore, you can go happily along for weeks, months, even a year without any dizziness that is debilitating to the effect that it throws you off balance to cause you to stumble or even fall or make you to grab a wall to steady yourself. You can't drive when you are experiencing this type of dizziness as it can cause you to get into an accident. So you must then rely on others. You need assistance sometimes just to get back to your chair when it hits so suddenly that you feel as if the whole world is spinning out of control and the rug is being pulled out from under your feet. For three years I spent three times a week going into the Emergency room of the local hospital due to falls occurring from this dreadful disease. Ending up with minor sprains or even twisted ankles, sprained wrists, severe concussion/terrible headache (from hitting my head) or even a broken finger at times. At this point I almost gave up on having a normal existence and began wearing a home alert button around my neck to call the ambulance to my house, when I was alone, in case I fell and couldn't get up. I even had to have home health come in so someone would be here in case I got dizzy while I was in the shower, which happened at least fifty percent of the time. It was a dreadful way to live. Then I had TMJ surgery on my side that had the affected Menieres ear (where I lost part of my hearing due to Menieres) and the dizzy spells lessened. "Wow" I thought this is great. After eight months of only having small spells that lasted only five to six minutes. Instead of two hours to four days in length like before. I asked the doctor if he felt I could go back to work. I went back to work again. It felt great to work again.
Then about a month ago. BAM! Menieres reared it's ugly head again. And now I can no longer perform my duties at work as my work requires my use of sticking patients with needles and bending over. I can not with good conscious injure a patient. Therefore, I found a need to resign. I am devastated. Now I must once again struggle with this confounded invisible disability in which little is know as to what causes it. Not only am I plaqued by dizzy spells but by a variety of other aches, pains, my migraines have also worsened dispite the medication I am on, I have insomnia, and I am also continually fatiqued. My doctor has sent me to a specialist for testing for other auto-immune diseases such as lupus or fibrmyalgia. I got myself off of SSD while I was working and was proud of that fact. Now, I must go back on until it can be controlled again.
Many people in society do not understand nor think that you have should draw Social Security Disability if you don't seem to have a problem they can see. arAuto-Immune disease e such an illness that many people have no understanding/concept about as most are typically invisible until they have flare ups.I know their are alot of disabilities out there that society believes are all in our minds and that we are faking. Just because they are not visible like strokes and paraplegics etc. However, we must somehow educate society on the lesser known diseases and disabilities known as auto-immune or invisible in order for them to have an understanding of what we are undergoing. I hope by writing this in hopes of educating people about auto-immune diseases. I also hope to educate and make the public more aware that there are "real people" that are in "real need" due to "true, unseen disabilities" that are not trying to take advantage of the system. Some wish they didn't have to rely on Government Assistance for help, because in most cases it's not as much as they could earn if they were actually working. When I worked, during the time my Menieres was in remission, I made nearly three times what I had been receiving on SSD and brought home twice what I had been receiveing on SSD per month. Therefore, my lifestyle was of a much higher standard and I was much happier and not at all depressed. I still have hopes that I will again get everything once more "under control" and one day be "back to work."
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