It was an unexpected and totally welcome surprise.Cassandra Kutner, a Lafayette wife and mother of two who was caught in a cycle of debt and unpaid bills, feels like she "won the lottery" when she got a call Monday from Social Security informing her that she had been approved for disability payments.
Kutner and her family had been living without her income since her multiple sclerosis worsened to the point that she could no longer work as a paralegal. She applied for disability in July 2007, and received a denial in February. In the meantime, bills kept piling up on the counter, and the family had even started using a wood-burning stove to lower their heating bills. But Kutner hired a lawyer, and the New Jersey Herald covered her story. ...
[I]n a little over two months, she got the call from Social Security telling her she'd received disability.
"It was way, way sooner than we had thought ... it was way earlier than we had expected," she said.
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