My father is bipolar and he collects ssi for his illness. I am not too sure how long of a process they go thru to determine what you will get but I know that my dad does get it, so it is something to look into if you feel that it is something for you. Good luck, hope this helped some.

Yes you can. It takes about 10 months total to get it. You cant have a job you can get welfare till you get approved on the 7th month they set up a dr appt and 3 months later you get checks

I recieved ssi exactly 5 months from applying . As long as you have all your papers in order, addresses of clinics, drs., etc they won't have to delay it by asking you for more info.
My appt with the state psy. Was 3 months after applying. This was in illinois tho.

Yeah diffrent states I guess

I applied for ssdi at the very end of september and I have bp. I have a 6 year old child that I have to care for, but I am unable to work.
A friend of mine has been receiving cash from public aid ever since she applied for ssdi 2 years ago and she is still fighting for them to approve her case. My case worker and her supervisor says that I am not eligible for cash benifits. I live in illinois and so does my friend. Does anyone know what I can do to fight this or at least find out why this is happening??

Ssi & ssdi are based on income. If your income is above thier cutoff and your friends is lower that might be why you are not eligble. Make your caseworker give you a straight answer as to why in your situation you are not eligible.. Hope this helps a little bit.

I am 36 and I applied for ssdi in 12/2003 and was told I was approved in 12/2004. It is now 1/18/05 and I am still waiting for them to tell me how much I am getting and when it will start, but I do have a letter stating I have been approved. I live in indiana. You can go online to http://www.Ssa.Gov/disability/ and actually apply for disability online. I did this and I was able to send everything in that they needed and fill all the forms out online. I only had to go out once and have a evaluation visit and 3 months after that I was declared disabled.

Cassandra

I live in Florida and have been waiting over 2 years for SSD. I it now in the hearing office and they say that here are so many that have inroled that they are only up to 2006. I applied in Jan 2005 but the go by the day date you filed for your court hearning. I filed that in November of 1007 after being denied twice. It is a long road when you are out of work. I have so much wrong with me, I have letter from all my specialist which cover mental illness to back injury and they all say there is nothing I can do as far as work goes. My memory is failing me too. I have several white matter leisons in my brain ( hardening of the arteries). My doctors have covered all bases and therefore there is nothing I can work at without overiding my possible SSD future.

CarolDiane, I imagine you may have read the articles on the government site. That is terrible, the only promising thing I could gather is that according to the articles they say they expect to clean up backlog by september 2008. It must be so frustrating. Unfortunately from what I can gather certain states have sped up the process and of course FL is not one of them. I do hope they hit the target date of September for you and so many others they have put on hold. Good Luck!! I am recently diagnosed BP but recieved my disability for post-polio. I was very fortunate to be approved the first time, my doctor didn't even hold much hope for me to get approved!! I was also lucky that it was five years ago and it took only 6 months to approve.

Lizz

Hi,
It is sad to hear of so many people that are ill from bipolar and other sickness as well. I live in Australia and have been recently diagnosed with bipolar 2. I recieve a support pension of wich I'm very grateful for although its not much. I'm trying to get some compensation so I can lve without too many financial hassles but there is a lot of red tape that in itself will give you bipolar if you dont already have it. Anyway to all you lovely people out there surviving the terrible illness of bipolar and other illness all the best and please try and keep your chin up, as there is light at the end of the road.
jack 57

There is a website for those wanting to apply to Social Security for disability. There is nothing that says you can't apply if you're bipolar, manic depressive. Basically, want you're trying to say is you -- because of the illness -- are unemployable.

http://www.helium.com/items/1101536-bipola r-disorder

Check out a piece I wrote about my bipolar. Then contact me and be sure to ask me about that website that gives you secrets to know about applying for Social Security Disability. It can be done.

i got aids, hepatitis c,helpes,sifillis .and chronic depression you think i can get disable for thats?