Reply #5: The fact that Social Security makes it nearly impossible for

[ThomCat]

people with disabilities to every get APPROVED for Social Security Disability really makes is damned near impossible to get student loans canceled. Or to get a hell of a lot of services we may need that depend on getting approved for Disability first.

Having to wait several years for your appeal because they routinely deny such a high percentage of cases no matter how much evidence there is of your disability, really makes this a life and death issue for a hell of a lot of people!

THEN, once you do get your appeal, and do get approved, if you manage to survive that long, BY then you are buried Debts from having to scrounge for the services for several years that you should have been entitled to. You are mired in poverty from having been stuck paying things like student loans even though you couldn't work, for years while you waited for social security. You can only now try to discharge those debts, but you should have been able to try to discharge those debts years earlier when you first became disabled if only Social Security worked the way it is supposed to!

Oh, I'm only a little bit cynical. It has only cost me an extra $20,000 or so that I won't ever be able to afford so far. And my student loans still haven't been discharged yet! :grr: