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SSDI and SSI
Fri, 04/29/2005 - 14:42The problem you are going to have is that SSI (which is what you can get when you do not have enough credits to get SSDI) Your husbands income is going to disqualify you for getting SSI. you can only get SSI when your total assets are less then $2,000.By the way I am Vicki and have not figured out how to use this site yet. I have complex partial seizures, focal seizures which may or maynot be the same thing. I have no idea what I am talking about when it comes to seizures. I also have had polio and post polio. I have not had seizures in years Till last year. Now i am trying to learn what I can which will be a lot since I know nothing.
RE: SSDI and SSI
Submitted by taho on Fri, 2005-04-29 - 14:42
Hi Vicki, It looks like you managed to post what you could offer so I think you have done fine using the site, that'a about what I can do too...Have you found much info on post-polio? My mother in law has that too and found out a lot of info because she just happened to go to a dr. that was from India. There is a lot more polio still happening there so it is more common to deal w/post polio...there are a lot of after-effects. My name is Toni and I have temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and have simple partial seizures (which, I think, are the same thing as auras) and have had 3 grand mals. I had my first grand mal in May 2004 and before that, didn't realize that the little strange things that happened to me were actually seizures...weird huh? Good luck using the site, I'd like to hear more about your post-polio...my e-mail is toniaho_2000@yahoo.comToni