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We were told to apply for disability for our daughter at age 19 which will be in August. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions to help us in this process? Do we wait until her birthday or are there things we need to do before to prepare? Thanks!!

posted July 1, 2016
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Go on the SSA website. Be sure the doctors explain the diagnosis & how it limits/affects

posted July 11, 2016
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Document Tatiana is the main thing, make sure you have all doctor's information, address, dates she started seeing them and how it affects her life.

posted July 7, 2016
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I applied for disability at 18. You just need to talk to her doctor to have them push it. After the papers were sent to my doctors they pushed it and within a couple of months o got mone

posted July 2, 2016
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I got my disability 3weeks after I apiled it shouldn't take to long I'm have epilepsy 10years now and um only on disability 13weeks because the people that dealt with me said i was wasting my time I told my doctors who naturally thought I was on it and she went crazy and I got it immediately thank God x

posted July 7, 2016

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