Really sounds as if you haven't complete information....It would be extremely unusual for a guy to qualify for disability based only on three missing fingers.. I would suspect there is something he hasn't told you about.
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Really sounds as if you haven't complete information....It would be extremely unusual for a guy to qualify for disability based only on three missing fingers.. I would suspect there is something he hasn't told you about.
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Yeah.. but it is a fine line..
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How about a guitar player with the use of only 3 fingers on his left hand?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZBPcXTXPEA
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Could very well be. I wrote his wife almost two months ago and he brought this up on policy delivery. I told him that I would have to consult with my uplink, which at Bankers is a bunch of chimps flinging poo at the dart board.
Anyways, I have now left that company and am on my way to meet with him next week. I will post how much of the story I didn't hear about.
As far as the SSD, I have no clue as to what does or does not qualify an individual with missing digits as a disability sufficient enough for early social security. Perhaps something with his hands was intangible to his job(which working at a manufacturing plant could easily fit in this realm, or he could have been a hand model like a previous poster suggested).
Happy New Year,
Tom
The law defines disability as the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity (SGA) by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment(s) which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.
https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/general-info.htm
That's a pretty stringent definition.
SGA defined
Substantial gainful activity is generally work that brings in over a certain dollar amount per month. In 2015, that amount is $1,090 for non-blind disabled applicants, and $1,820 for blind applicants. If you are making more than that amount per month, the SSA figures that you must not be disabled
What Is SGA (Substantial Gainful Activity) for Social Security Disability Purposes? | Disability Secrets
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https://www.ssa.gov/redbook/eng/definedisability.htm
https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/general-info.htm
That's a pretty stringent definition.
SGA defined
Substantial gainful activity is generally work that brings in over a certain dollar amount per month. In 2015, that amount is $1,090 for non-blind disabled applicants, and $1,820 for blind applicants. If you are making more than that amount per month, the SSA figures that you must not be disabled
What Is SGA (Substantial Gainful Activity) for Social Security Disability Purposes? | Disability Secrets
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https://www.ssa.gov/redbook/eng/definedisability.htm
I was wondering the same thing. Missing fingers is a disability?
Would not normally be based on the SS disability definition.
What is an uplink?
