Good luck Mite.I have been on SS Disability for about 3 years now.I think they deny everybody the first time and try to make them get a lawyer.A friend of mine applied and was turned down even though there was no doubt she was eligible.She got a lawyer and waited about 2 years.The day before her appeal was to be heard in court,she got a call that they had enough info and was going to get it.My father-in-law has applied and was denied and got a lawyer.He was told that there is at least an 18 month waiting list for court.When I went,they denied me the first time.I called a lawyer for an appeal and he didn't show up for the first appeal process so I re applied and ended up being interviewed at the SS office.It was when we were sending all the money to Afganistan.The lady told me she would see wht they could do and I told her that there had better be some money for me if we had money to send overseas.I was approved and got my back disability.The only way to get it,is to fight for it.It is a shame that people in our situations have to beg for SS which we put into while the US has money for every other country.Check out the thoughts of some of the guys about this country in the hunting politics section that I wrote about sick of the tsunami.Some of these guys are truly clueless to the way that things really are in America.