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Originally Posted by mollypeanut
Does anyone where I can get some good advice about social security disability...My husband was diagnosed in June..With stage 4 lung cancer.. He is still working and he carries our medical coverage.. After 4 very long rounds of chemo I don't know how long he can do this...We still have a mortgage on the house because he had planed to work till retirement age... Does he have to quit his job.. to start the process?? Does anyone know how long it will take??
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When my husband got diagnosed w cancer, he went on disability w Metlife which he had paid into for yrs.
Metlife also said that besides their check, we had to apply to Soc Sec for disability.
We dd.
My husband was 54
Now he is 56, in remission ( but with tons of side effects courtesy of chemo)
We had no problems at all with SS
We had no need for a lawyer.
Your situation might be different, of course.
But he never went back to work
In corporate America once you have been on long term disability for 12 months, they terminate you.
Prayers going your way.
BTW
We have a friend who has stage 4 lung cancer ( diagnosed over a yr ago) , skinny but alive and relatively fine.