jadedone24
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What is the name of your state? AR
I wanted to get some opinion on my husbands upcoming hearing for his disability. We recently met with our attorney who told us he has a "better chance than not" at winning. However, I am still worried--it is our future. We filed the first of last year and are awaiting the hearing. Here is the basics of his case: He is a 29 yo male with adult add, depression and severe mood disorder. Additionally, he scored midly retarded on 2 exams, one administered by the state, the other a rehab center where we tried to get him some training. He has had some 30 jobs...he attempts, but is "let go" because he isn't able to catch on and work without having to be reinstructed. I personally have been against people getting on disability who don't need it--I made him continue to try to find jobs, until the day I saw him on a job--struggling, coworkers calling him terrible names and it just broke my heart. Truly in many ways my husband has a child's mind. It was evident in the testing they did. The state continues to deny him based on the fact he did work on farm for a considerable amout of time before moving here when we got married. They say he is fit to return to that line of work. However, the stipulation to his employment on the farm is, that because his father is friends with the men that employed my husband, they continued to give him jobs that he could do and were very undertanding and leinent. Most all employers as we know aren't like that so therefore he has been unsucessful at gainful employment. Now, he sees a psychologist and therapist monthy. Our lawyer said that the reports from them support our claim. My question is, what chance, in any of your experience, do we have of winning this claim?
I wanted to get some opinion on my husbands upcoming hearing for his disability. We recently met with our attorney who told us he has a "better chance than not" at winning. However, I am still worried--it is our future. We filed the first of last year and are awaiting the hearing. Here is the basics of his case: He is a 29 yo male with adult add, depression and severe mood disorder. Additionally, he scored midly retarded on 2 exams, one administered by the state, the other a rehab center where we tried to get him some training. He has had some 30 jobs...he attempts, but is "let go" because he isn't able to catch on and work without having to be reinstructed. I personally have been against people getting on disability who don't need it--I made him continue to try to find jobs, until the day I saw him on a job--struggling, coworkers calling him terrible names and it just broke my heart. Truly in many ways my husband has a child's mind. It was evident in the testing they did. The state continues to deny him based on the fact he did work on farm for a considerable amout of time before moving here when we got married. They say he is fit to return to that line of work. However, the stipulation to his employment on the farm is, that because his father is friends with the men that employed my husband, they continued to give him jobs that he could do and were very undertanding and leinent. Most all employers as we know aren't like that so therefore he has been unsucessful at gainful employment. Now, he sees a psychologist and therapist monthy. Our lawyer said that the reports from them support our claim. My question is, what chance, in any of your experience, do we have of winning this claim?