tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post4354407638463501271..comments2024-03-28T15:24:37.140-04:00Comments on Social Security News: Some Relief For Confused Claimants Because "Nobody Knew Healthcare Could Be So Complicated"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-13910319922840539882017-03-10T17:19:44.191-05:002017-03-10T17:19:44.191-05:00https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-law-begin-accep...https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-law-begin-accepting-gre-scores-not-just-215231332.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-48361019549723038792017-03-06T12:31:40.663-05:002017-03-06T12:31:40.663-05:00While the children are busy tussling in the sandbo...While the children are busy tussling in the sandbox, here is some information for the professional, semi-professional, Claimant or other concerned parties:<br /><br />National SHIP Office Locator for Medicare and Medicaid assistance, aging and disability related services.<br />http://www.seniorsresourceguide.com/directories/National/SHIP/<br /><br />CIL (Center for Independent Living) Locator<br />Assistance for those with disability to stay living in the community, training, equipment loan programs, program assistance, and more.<br /><br />http://www.ilru.org/projects/cil-net/cil-center-and-association-directory<br /><br />ACA Navigator Locator (Obamacare for those who know it that way)<br />https://www.healthcare.gov/apply-and-enroll/get-help-applying/<br /><br />ADRC (Aging and Disability Resource Centers)<br />http://www.eldercare.gov/Eldercare.NET/Public/About/Aging_Network/ADRC.aspx<br /><br />If you are seeking additional resources, post here, likely others have similar questions and problems. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-26168335069120421182017-03-06T11:54:31.756-05:002017-03-06T11:54:31.756-05:00910
Its official, you are exhibiting the classic ...910<br /><br />Its official, you are exhibiting the classic signs of JD envy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-57266424675472808662017-03-06T09:10:27.381-05:002017-03-06T09:10:27.381-05:00@7:34 They teach you that at Harvard? remember, no...@7:34 They teach you that at Harvard? remember, non atty reps are doing your exact same job and getting paid the same thing. Bless your heart!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-58784053402766404042017-03-05T00:01:34.394-05:002017-03-05T00:01:34.394-05:00Do not advise your clients to cancel your Part B i...Do not advise your clients to cancel your Part B if they have VA coverage under Tricare for Life.<br /><br />Tricare cancels you until you get back under Part B. Which you can't get until the next general enrollment period (Jan-Mar). And coverage doesn't start until July.<br /><br />There's a reason we try really, really hard to talk people out of cancelling Part B at the field office in situations like these. Because we usually see the same people a short time later, and they just came back from the VA pissing in their cornflakes, claiming we told them wrong.<br /><br />There's a reason we make you sign a 795 stating we advised you not to at the same time we give you the 1763 to cancel...........Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-17172147067548402402017-03-04T22:51:02.124-05:002017-03-04T22:51:02.124-05:00650
1157's comment was a slam against attorne...650<br /><br />1157's comment was a slam against attorneys, plain and simple. <br /><br />It was not a call to action, however, you get extra points for imagination.<br /><br />Attorneys persist everyday fighting for other people. Are there some bad apples? Yes there are and they make us all look bad. However, the fact that there are some bad attorneys does not warrant the downright animus that the non-attorneys on this board and in the Agency have for attorneys.<br /><br />But I am breaking my own rule and feeding the trolls.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-85029445337013718462017-03-04T18:50:03.464-05:002017-03-04T18:50:03.464-05:00The poster said get off your butt and do something...The poster said get off your butt and do something and is accused of JD envy, whatever that is and to to eff off. Nice professional responses to a call to action. Sure hope the poster is a JD too and passed the bar and was calling his brothers and sisters to arms. I lost a lot of respect for the board on this. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-67193394436977312632017-03-04T14:16:29.130-05:002017-03-04T14:16:29.130-05:001157
What are you talking about?
You clearly hat...1157<br /><br />What are you talking about?<br /><br />You clearly hate attorneys and it appears to be a simple case of JD envy. <br /><br />Go get your law degree and put the rest of us to shame.<br /><br />Otherwise, by all means continue to exercise your first amendment right to express your opinion, but realize that if it wasn't for lawyers, that right would most likely have been severely abridged by now.<br /><br />Once again, you have my pity whether you want it or not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-85460473300254999492017-03-04T07:34:21.183-05:002017-03-04T07:34:21.183-05:00Kiss my whiny ass 11:57.Kiss my whiny ass 11:57.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-47762855066070504992017-03-03T23:57:18.047-05:002017-03-03T23:57:18.047-05:00While you are persisting you might try getting off...While you are persisting you might try getting off your whiny butt and do something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-70914976309764216472017-03-03T19:29:34.544-05:002017-03-03T19:29:34.544-05:00Amen! If our democracy is to be preserved we must ...Amen! If our democracy is to be preserved we must persist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-52566108110818519172017-03-03T18:43:17.151-05:002017-03-03T18:43:17.151-05:00They lock us up because we persist, regardless of ...They lock us up because we persist, regardless of our gender.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-69390893462411878712017-03-03T18:38:51.113-05:002017-03-03T18:38:51.113-05:00I think your point is well taken. We are professio...I think your point is well taken. We are professionals in a service business and for some a calling. I am attracted to the work because I grew up with a blind and disabled mother. My office has even assisted in getting one of our mentally ill clients who passed away and was a veteran a funeral and burial in a military cemetary. However, I can tell you this since the NPR and other media slam attacks and the DC witch hunt declared by the powers out to get the program and the congress, I feel like I have been designated for extinction. It is getting much harder to do this social work and feed a family and keep an office open if you are truly in this field for the right reasons. I have also gotten to see my clients starve out and die off in greater numbers since 2010 from their ailments or suicide. I can tell you the names of everyone I've lost. We are promised an Ayn Rand utopia if we just get rid of all of the lawyers. What I have seen is injured workers in state comp systems getting totally screwed due to "comp reform" and my clients suffering far more than ever due to the hostile climate which has been stirred up against them. Get rid of us and it will be open season on claimants. Fill up those private prisons and let the rest die from neglect. This is not the nature of a civilized society that I would wish to live in. Remember, totalitarian societies trash and lock up the lawyers. Wonder why?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-78592419637058820642017-03-03T14:06:09.220-05:002017-03-03T14:06:09.220-05:001:01, I clearly stated I did NOT expect the reps t...1:01, I clearly stated I did NOT expect the reps to provide the services, only be able to refer the Claimants to the services. Again and again on this blog we see reps posting that they do this line of work not for the money but to help those with disabilities. If you are going to take that moral high ground then how could they practice multiple years and not know of those most basic services for the disabled? They do not know because they do not participate with disabled in the community other than as clients. It would behoove them to provide those agencies to the Claimant during the process to aid with medication, medical payments and more. Many urban areas have 211 services for information and referral to agencies, it is advertised on radio and television. If you are truly in it for the disabled then become informed to the agencies and services in the area, if not ignore this and be upset. Every CIL and AAoA is listed in a variety of resource guides, provide dozens of trainings a year, do in service training to community business, and hold public health and information fairs. They also are constantly fund raising to make up funding gaps. Funny how the disabled clients find the services but the educated representative of the disabled is unaware the programs are even out there. <br /><br />I do not treat them like an enemy, I don't treat them at all because we don't ever see them. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-17543802658734637892017-03-03T13:01:29.656-05:002017-03-03T13:01:29.656-05:001242
You are so quick to condemn the reps, but yo...1242<br /><br />You are so quick to condemn the reps, but you only know about these services because it is part of your job AND you must have been provided with some training. <br /><br />Providing these services is not part of the reps jobs, although I bet that if training was provided, more of them might get involved in it.<br /><br />You only pointed out negatives, why don't you see it as an opportunity to provide training for the reps instead of treating them like the enemy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-77890908686337157422017-03-03T12:42:25.631-05:002017-03-03T12:42:25.631-05:00I also want to add that I do not expect representa...I also want to add that I do not expect representatives to be able to provide all of those services, but I do expect them to know where the services are and provide the contact information to the Claimant. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-2854204643185518922017-03-03T12:30:57.961-05:002017-03-03T12:30:57.961-05:00@6:17 I am interested in why I am "digging my...@6:17 I am interested in why I am "digging my heels into quicksand" as you put it. There will never be a shortage of aging and disabled people needing assistance. With 10,000 people reaching retirement age every day for the next 25 years or so, I would say that there will be a steady stream of individuals needing the services, information and programs I work with. As we see a shift in the views of the national leaders we have seen a decline in approvals for programs like SSDI. Recent discussions on block grants to programs like Medicaid mean that those that provide services to communities are going to come into play more often as state and federal programs will not be paying for base services and goods. <br /><br />Community service members and networks that work with the aging and disabled have long been developing equipment loan programs, food services, training and other programs to keep the aging and disabled in their homes, where it is cheaper for the state, better for the individual and stronger for the community. <br /><br />I am a boorish pill, I am also able to find that pill on a Medicare Part D Plan Finder, complete the LIS if needed, do a cost analysis of the plans for the consumer and connect to other programs to get that pill at a price the Claimant can afford. I can also direct them to a food pantry to get some sugar to help the medicine go down, see if they qualify for MOW (Meals on Wheels) home healthcare assistance, a connection for rides to the grocery or doctor appointments. If the representative is truly in the business to provide assistance to the disabled, the representative should be aware of the programs and providers in the area. I have only seen groups like Allsup coming to the networking meetings and they are pitching the services they charge for and get a kickback on the Medicare plans they sell. Not one local representative of SSDI has shown up in 10 years I have been providing services. It is not our job to reach out to professionals and inform them, but for the professionals to reach out to become informed about an area of importance to their clients. <br /><br />We may have differing opinions, but I voiced my opinion in a manner that did not involve name calling. If you wish to continue the discussion I encourage it, but would ask that you do so in respectful and professional manner. <br /><br />Sincerely, a boorish pill, in disdain, and quicksand up to my neck! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-68274896645646367392017-03-03T09:45:23.980-05:002017-03-03T09:45:23.980-05:00@6:17, must be hitting a little to close to home f...@6:17, must be hitting a little to close to home for you. Have a nice day!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-81386828982515710442017-03-03T09:44:21.247-05:002017-03-03T09:44:21.247-05:00Reps really should know that basic information.Reps really should know that basic information.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-81174929299165651482017-03-02T20:32:33.100-05:002017-03-02T20:32:33.100-05:00947
Why would you think that the reps would know ...947<br /><br />Why would you think that the reps would know about this program?<br /><br />Why the statement about the check in the bank?<br /><br />Why do you hate reps so much?<br /><br />Do you know everything about everything?<br /><br />Your negativity is a reflection on you, not on the reps that you seek to disparage.<br /><br />You have my pity whether you want it or not.<br /><br />Try to be nicer to yourself and perhaps you will learn to be nicer to others.<br /><br />I wish you well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-3821409498078780382017-03-02T19:14:43.490-05:002017-03-02T19:14:43.490-05:00We truly are a divided nationWe truly are a divided nationAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-29770624032108151892017-03-02T18:17:16.973-05:002017-03-02T18:17:16.973-05:00that's right 9:47/5:06, take a jab at people u...that's right 9:47/5:06, take a jab at people under the guise of informing the public and then continue to show a disdain-filled attitude in your response...yeh just keep digging your heels in the quicksand.<br /><br />so admirable to stand behind your original statement....despite the tone deafness you continue to display.<br /><br />what a boorish pill.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-21668176607486367572017-03-02T17:06:51.709-05:002017-03-02T17:06:51.709-05:00Your attitude is just what I expected 2:19, the la...Your attitude is just what I expected 2:19, the last thing in the world I need is your kudos. Now you are informed, perhaps you can become educated, obviously you cannot use Google or have ever even attempted the assistance outlined above or it would have been so entirely basic as to be worthless.<br /><br />So I stand by my original statement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-56427074082195590782017-03-02T14:19:33.982-05:002017-03-02T14:19:33.982-05:00You couldn't just leave it as an informative p...You couldn't just leave it as an informative public service announcement could you... had to include the pious backhanded insult to those of us earnestly working with our clients.<br /><br />Maybe some are simply unfamiliar with the program.<br /><br />No kudos for you! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-35248077220171079372017-03-02T09:47:30.331-05:002017-03-02T09:47:30.331-05:00Retirees should always consider contacting the loc...Retirees should always consider contacting the local SHIP (Senior Or State Health Insurance Program)via the local Area Agency on Aging. These folks are trained to provide assistance and information about the healthcare choices for those new to Medicare. They can assist with choosing a Part D Plan, complete the LIS if needed, review coverage with Medicare Advantage Plans in the area and discuss Medicare Supplemental Insurance. They are not associated with any insurance company, but funded by the Older Americans Act, so they do not get a commission for putting someone in a plan. The service is normally free, but due to many state budget cuts to social services they may suggest a donation. www.n4a.org has a very easy to use locator search.<br /><br />I am shocked that more representatives are unaware of the services available to those they get benefits for. ALL of them should be aware of the local SHIP and CIL (Center for Independent Living) so the Claimant has an opportunity to get assistance once benefits are established and the Medicare IEP is available. But I guess once the check is in the bank, that's all that matters to some.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com