Maybe a little over a year was not long enough for the spouse benefit. I don't know.
And do I ever know being just that tad over the limit to get help. :grrr:
It seems I have nearly a full time job just trying to keep on top of all the programs to try to survive. Nevermind the full time job of trying to homeschool DS and find services for him.
Regarding your daughter continuing on SSDI, that's an interesting fact. If I EVER reach a worker, I will ask about that too. :hammer:
And man, oh, man, I am soooo dreading him reaching 18, because that will be the first thing out of his mouth: "You can't tell me what to do, I'm 18!" :hammer:
And yes, there are some kind of restrictions on back pay for children. I know a mom who has adopted many difficult child kids and I remember when her oldest daughter went through that. It was a huge amount, and I think they ended up using it as a down payment to buy a condo for her.
I'll never have to worry about SSI looking at both of us as disabled, because they won't even talk to me, as the income's too high for SSI and I don't qualify for SSDI. :rolleyes:
We had COBRA ins. until 5 years ago. That year Massachusetts raised ALL health ins. across the board 25%. Ours went from $800/mo. to over $1000/mo. That was the end of health ins.
Eventually husband's kicked in from the SSDI. About 6 months later, I managed to get DS onto MassHealth for Children. But I've never managed to get any for myself, until this program was started up.
MassHealth has much the same problem here. Mass. is not reknown for prompt payment of submitted bills.
I wonder if that pulling of the SSDI file is applicable to our predictament, mostly because the supervisor said it had been sitting on the worker's desk all this time. :grrr:
I think I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and go down and sit for hours here soon. Sigh.
Pam R.
