- April 27, 2024
- Posted by: legaleseblogger
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## Situation Overview
Hi! I am 24 years-old, have never worked full-time, and had to withdraw from college three years ago due to physical and mental health issues. My diagnoses include PDD-NOS (now termed Autism Spectrum Disorder) at age 4 with further confirmation at age 13, Generalized Anxiety Disorder at age 12, ADD, Major Depressive Disorder, and OCD at age 13, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome at age 21, and IBS at age 22. I also have a long-standing history of morbid obesity since middle school.
Right now, my EDS symptoms and executive dysfunction are so severe that I cannot reliably exert sustained effort towards anything for more than a couple of hours per day. I currently make a small amount of money by taking online surveys, but I do not feel that I can work enough to support myself. This situation is compounded by the fact that my parents are in their mid-60s and early-70s and cannot afford to support me for much longer, as my mother is beginning to exhibit signs of early-onset dementia. My father currently receives Social Security Retirement benefits, so I am trying to obtain DAC (Dependent Adult Child benefits) in addition to SSI.
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1. Can you get SSI & DAC if your disability began before age 22 but you don’t have access to the records of your disability from before age 22?
2. What pieces of evidence are typically required for someone to obtain SSI and/or DAC benefits for a neurodevelopmental disability, such as Autism or ADD?
3. Is it required that a claimant receive “treatment” for their neurodevelopmental disability in order to continue receiving benefits, and if so, from what type of professional?
4. What type of professional’s opinion will be highly regarded by those evaluating a claimant for disability when it comes to Autism/ADD?
5. Is going to school regarded similarly as working a job in sense that if someone with a disability can attend school full-time, claim evaluators assume they can also work full-time?
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Here is the Blue Book description of what SSA looks for under Autism Spectrum Disorder. Since it is a spectrum, people with the same diagnosis have different symptoms. This section is easily misinterpreted. Some applicants believe that if their illness or condition is listed, that means they are approved. That is incorrect. The severity of your problems as evidenced by medical evidence matters. Also, you may have been diagnosed years ago, but illnesses and conditions progress or improve over time. So the diagnosis date is important, but not as important as the medical records showing the severity.
[https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/12.00-MentalDisorders-Adult.htm#12_10](https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/12.00-MentalDisorders-Adult.htm#12_10)
You are only 24. Your medical records from age 18 to now are not all destroyed yet. And SSA doesn’t care about your childhood records anyway, since the childhood rules are not the same as the adult rules. Try to figure out where your old adult records are stored. You can also apply without finding them, but give SSA enough information to try to find them for you. Doesn’t mean that either of you will be successful, but don’t delay filing because you can’t find childhood records now.
DAC is not in addition to SSI. The income from DAC would replace some of the SSI since SSI is a welfare program. All other money affects SSI. Keep track of your survey income. It will have to be reported as well to SSI.
Return to work rules are different for SSI and DAC as well. You have worked some jobs. SSDI based on your own work history will have to be determined as well and if approved, SSDI would be the bottom level, the difference between the DAC and the SSDI would be paid on top of the SSDI, and the difference between DAC and SSDI would be paid by SSI. Three potential entitlements, but if the others are low, you would still be limited to the SSI cap, which is $943 in 2024, assuming you pay rent somewhere; less when you don’t.
SSI also has more restrictive rules on payment eligibility, but also gets you on Medicaid and actually has totally different return to work rules. If you get all three, you need to understand all three.
[https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-understanding-ssi.htm](https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-understanding-ssi.htm)
If you do become entitled, you will have medical reviews about once every three to seven years to see if you are still as severely disabled as you are today. And that will be based on your medical provider’s records, not your own opinion. If you are on SSI, you will have annual reviews to see if you continue to meet the income and resource rules.
If you haven’t already filed, get it done this month. This can be a long process. Many people go through the appeal process which can be several years. You can hire an attorney who only gets paid if you do. But the attorney doesn’t know your life better than you do and doesn’t provide much legal assistance until the second appeal. It doesn’t makes sense for you to add to the time. SSI eligibility would be April 2024, not any time before. SSDI and DAC, well, it depends.
What was the last day you worked? That may be your alleged date of onset, although you may want to choose an earlier date. You can claim onset at age 4 if you want, but you will have to complete form SSA 821 about all work after that date. It could be written off as Unsuccessful Work Attempt, depends on details.
[https://www.ssa.gov/forms/ssa-821.html](https://www.ssa.gov/forms/ssa-821.html)
[https://www.ssa.gov/disability/disability.html](https://www.ssa.gov/disability/disability.html)
1. Maybe.
2. Medical records proving your disability started before age 22
3. Yes
4. Psychologist
5. Yes. College is equated to working like a job but the poms doesn’t explicitly state this
Maybe being active via a job would help with obesity and mental health