Social Security Administration Reviews

I have made several formal complaints to Ms. **, Ms. **, Ms. and Ms. **, Ms. **, Ms. **, the head offices, but not limited to... We filed several complaints with Hon. Barbara Boxer’ Office Of U.S. Senator 70 Washington Street, Sui-203 Oakland, California 94607 Ph: (510) 286-8537 Fax: (202) 228-3864 or Fax (202) 224-0454.

(In Take Case-Rep. Olivia) Interrogated me as if was stealing money from her. Asking me the questions to see if I would change my answers and was sarcastic, and I reminded her that the call was recorded and told her how I felt. Olivia retaliated.

The next day my son's caseworker called but left a message requesting check stubs for my 13 year old granddaughter? I knew that Ms. ** harassing me for “Olivia” because she went back three years without cause or notifications or reason. This has caused me and my family more hardships and placed us under duress, but not limited to. Please take notice that “certain” Social Security Administration employees employers are mean, very aggressive, retaliatory, demeaning, bullies, insulting, liars, prejudice against people of other races, harassing, non-diplomatic, negative, nonfriendly, negligent per se, but not limited to.

I am 100% afraid for my safety and others' because of Social Security employers/employees lack proper professional training and or Social Security Administration employees' carelessness, nonchalant attitudes towards clients that are mentally ill, disabled, is very disgusting and place our lives in everyday dangerous situations. Doctors getting kickbacks for savings money for denying benefits to qualified severely disabled individuals, and the mentally ill, and individuals with rare illnesses. Patients dying because Social Security doctors, and judges denying them and or removing SSA/SSI with no remorse.

No doubt Social Security Administration employees employers plays a big part in homelessness, stressed, knowing that disabled, clients needs their SSA/SSI benefits, Medicare, have needs, medical bills, bills, and these Social Security Administration employees act as if it's a BANK or their money. Just like others I have developed all types of medical conditions because of Social Security Administration employees-employers because of their bias personal harassment for years.

To: Hon. Barbara Boxer Office - I’ll be asking for at least - $100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, because of Social Security Administration employees continue to tick off clients, mentally ill, or disabled persons and they come to their offices may their aggression out on us, and my heart may not be able to handle the stressful situations. I am terrified of obvious and or possibly mentally ill (suspect, identified as ** Xiong, 52, of Sacramento who was apparently upset over being denied a Social Security claim, said Sacramento police Lt. David **). I have experienced first hand that SSI employees are liars just like Trump and laugh in clients' faces and behind theirs backs about it, once they have security throw them out. The SSA employees thinks it's a joke...

I’ve gave my family members and friends copies of this complaint... This complaint is no way any type of threat, it is to educate the public. This is to inform the public and let everyone know that we’re being bullied by the Social Security Administration and certain employees, our senators, and congresspeople, but not limited to. The government is ignoring any and all our complaints and telephones calls dealing with the Social Security Administration employees et al. Beware - Money that we paid into the system is being given to foreigners whom didn’t pay a penny, but we’re being denied and being racially harassed by foreigners who work at the Social Security Offices (go figure).

I just spoke to a woman who is on the Fact Team, she told me that some people who were drug addicts used the money to get high and then they died. She then stated that "I just got tired of it so I helped this to stop". I told her that, taking away the rights of others is not the place of our government. I then asked her what her credit score was and she said "I have no idea, I don't understand credit". I explained to her I do understand credit. I explained to her that I have gone to the bank, and made arrangements to build my credit. I explained how that process worked. SS says I must pay for people to give me estimates to fix the RV that I live in. This process is a couple of hundred dollars, why would I do that, when I do not want to stay in my RV. I WANT A HOME and I have a right to that home.

I believe that I am being discriminated against and so are other people who are told by our government that because we are disabled we have NO CIVIL RIGHT OR CIVIL LIBERTIES. When SSA can fully account for what they are doing with our money then they have the right to question those that are disabled. SSA refuses to demonstrate to me and others how they use my and your money. (I cannot save money as long as I receive SSI. They watch my bank account.) I have to save money. I think we need to obtain a civil rights attorney and do a class action suit. THEY ARE DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THOSE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BECOME PRODUCTIVE ADULTS AGAIN.

So I was working at the time and stopped working having been told when I would receive my benefit. Well guess what - now I am not working and my damn application is still being processed - this case worker out and out lied to me - now I have no income and all my bills are piling up - why in the hell did she say, "Oh yes you’ll start receiving April 18th,"- what the heck am I to do??? I went to local SS office and explained my dilemma and was told the application is sitting on someone’s desk. What the hell. You would think I was taking money that I wasn’t eligible for. I am absolutely disgusted.

Spent months trying to sort this, nobody knows anything, waiting for calls back from Tricare and trying to call Medicare and social security has been a nightmare. I spoke with a rep at SS yesterday after an hour long hold, she was extremely rude, and her supervisor was useless. They said I should go the office. The website doesn't let me log in, says my username has two E's, but they say it's only one. Tried to change password and locked out. This is very deeply saddening to me, and gross that people having disability or retirement have to deal with this. TOTALLY GROSS AMERICA.

I explained he must have done it a very long time ago and asked if there is any way he can ever go online. He said there is nothing he can do about that. I told him then he can request a third letter to see if we get it and he hung up right away. Their office is closed so I can't call them back again. So much for customer service, agents like this should be fired. This administration is a complete mess and no wonder why, they can’t hire competent people who are actually willing to help. What a shame and disgrace.

We get great medical care outside of Siskiyou County with no cost to county. We do hospice work with our people for no pay and do not want a case opened with Siskiyou Social Services Dept. I realize I am not going to get any social security money so will get care for husband (68) and get a job instead of trying to retire. I am 66. Perhaps several years down the pike the Siskiyou Welfare Social Services will retire their crystallized social workers who want to see retirees abused by holding up their pay. I will go to the state capital to try to get this cleared up. Write your capital and Washington. Communicate with your representatives... We deserve our homes and a decent income... Disabled people are disposable and treated like garbage. This county is run by a bunch of bullies... Perhaps the old ones in the Welfare Dept should retire themselves instead of paying their bills with our social security retirement money?

I'm a voter and a citizen of this country. Disabled veteran, now homeless, car broke down, finances in terrible state. With a high priority case to receive my back with no response from payment center and when I've showed up twice to the local office in the freezing cold to get help they keep changing what the follow up policy for checking a dire need high priority case. Total shame my body can't take the cold. I was in so much pain. SMH. After centuries of this system being a mess it still is but we pay billions in taxes and we can't fix a system for the working class. It's an absolute shame this country is so heartless to the sick people who served and built this country. One check couldn't pull me out of this situation and I've been out of work since 2014. When they claim they are helping Veterans not True. I haven't received one penny to help me from no agency.

So now I can't stay here because with my condition can't stay here. So on top of this now I can't go get another house cause I don't have the income to qualify. I've been on my own since 17. Had my own. Lived on my own. I made 60,000.00 and more. Now sick. No income for 1 year and have no income. Waiting for my decision from SSDI. Get it in Jan. No check till March 2018 and still haven't received 17 months of my back pay. Can someone help me out.

Once I understood that she was saying the ss office I was unset with myself because I forget my security question. Next thing I know she is talking about me to another co worker and she forgot to hang up the phone saying I got mad at her because I don't know what I am doing. I told her, “Before you start talking about someone you should make sure you hang up and I wasn’t mad at you.” And before I could say I was sorry for making her feel I was mad at her she kept talking and hang up when she saw I was still on the line. I tried to call back to complain only to get a Cris on the phone putting me on hold for a few min coming back saying his supervisor was not in and all he could do is take the phone number down and have them call me back in 24 hour then he started asking me what wrong.

I told him no disrespect to him but I needed to talk with a supervisor not him. I felt like he wanted to warn them that there was a complaint coming through and he wanted to know what it was about so he could go around and find out who took the call. No one should have to her them talking about them period and I feel that they don’t care and I do not believe that there was no one to take my call. I think they all cover for each other and that he knew there was someone for me to talk to but he wanted to find out first so they could get their story together.

SO, I had an audit in February of 2018 where A Mr. **, looked over whatever, and was just in the process of dismissing me when I asked him; "Mr. **, what about Sub-Penny Stocks?" I decided it was a good time to find out one way or another! Yes, I brought the subject up to him, not the other way around, which I always assumed that SSI knew about them? Well, the look of the devil came in his eyes, and I felt it was a mortal sin which terrified me!

Ok, a miracle occurred where one the one in a Million P-Stock began rising, making it (Gers) the only one doing any good, and after many reverse splits, started rising and reached about $6,000 of the $7,191.++ dollar number, excluding purchase costs of course! He immediately (February 22, 2018,) asked for the last month's statement, and that I had 10 days to provide it! So by the time I was to send it in, I decided to take into account February's final amount, which turned out to be $ 4,484.++ Dollars, and sent that in besides January's final amount! I got a letter stating that they (decided,) yes decided, that they would use the $7,191.++ amount which I felt wasn't the last amount, but the previous month's accounting! They want us to be fair, but is that fair? Maybe I guess?

I never even told him that I didn't have a car, or van, and that my intention was to buy one with the proceeds, (If I could sell-out,) which is almost impossible with the low volume accompanying P-Stock buying! They quickly suspended me and am now waiting for the final judgment as to how much I owe them, and under what terms!

I came to the conclusion that SSI helped me buy many of those Sub-Penny Stocks, which I came to realize was a great thing, but selling the stock where only maybe 5-12 people participate every day, does not indicate that stock being anywhere near the $7,000.++ worth! I might be able to sell-out when the price goes down to $3,000 or so, but NO guarantee there either? I want to do the right thing as I now fully realize their standards, but with the euphoria of that stock climbing, SSI was the last thing on my mind! But I sense power being utilized here, and I certainly am not the one with any power at all! Any suggestions? Please, this senior has nothing, and might never have anything? Thanks.

I have bills, prescription meds and food that I have to pay for with $0 income. How in the world do they expect me to live? I cannot get a job because nobody is hiring! They have even made me cry on the phone while screaming at me! What a joke! I am going to have to write another appeal letter and I will keep fighting them, but this is absolutely ridiculous!

Since a phone number and permanent address are required for the qualification interviews, there is the added burden of maintaining contact systems within debilitated circumstances or lost benefits. It seems that beyond a certain age, the SSA as a necessary evil would have the decency to just leave recipients alone to grow old in peace and comfort.

Updated on 03/02/2018: Well it's me, I'm back, took a missed day of work with the last bit of gas I have! Went to my local office asking them why they didn't reply to the "URGENT" message the SS ADMINISTRATION guy told me he was sending? Lady stated we received the message but there is nothing we can do! What so he lied (5) days ago???

She said, "I see here where you did speak to a woman as stated on the 22nd of February and you went over your pay & I also see where there has been payments taken out for overpayment", I said, "Then why did I not receive a payment in February??" She said, "Oh they will pay you for February & March but, the system has to catch up so you won't get a scheduled payment until April." I said, "APRIL!!! I was told by that man that it was clearly marked a hardship & I should have a deposit within days." Really??? So the SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION IS A JOKE, & THEY ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS WHO DEPEND ON A "COMPUTER SYSTEM"??? I now have nothing, nothing till April. Gee maybe my high blood pressure will kill me before then & the state will save money!!! What a heck of a way to treat anyone, who has worked all their lives!!!

So I had to try to get by on very little and just kept trying to get the help I needed. I filed to the state circuit court to try and get someone to listen but they merely read the prior ALJ's input and didn't pay any attention to the facts that I was trying to convey to them. Finally the attorney that was trying to help me said that there was nothing further he could do (that's when I tried to get the state circuit court's attention) that went on for a long time. Finally I got back in touch with the attorney and because the SSA had lost some of the file I had the right to have another hearing so we did but again it was before the same ALJ so of course it was denied. There was absolutely no logic to what they were trying to get me to believe. Why would any doctor put their license on the line by deliberately lying to make a patient appear to be disabled. I seen several different doctors throughout the whole thing.

I could understand them playing down the problems and pain a patient was having but not the other way. However the attorney found something that made it possible for me to basically go around the system a bit. He got me some help due to the fact that I had turned over 50 with the same or worse problems however by that time my kids were grown up and I wasn't able to be the kind of mom they deserved. So when I finally the acceptance letter and explanation it was signed by another judge. I read it and that judge basically indicated that they had no problem believing that I had incurred all those problem and was disabled. I don't know what that first ALJ thought he had against me but he made my life a living hell from which I could not escape.

I have MRI's and things that show that I was in pain (not to mention the fact that I was on ** and ** throughout most of the time I was trying to get the help). So if you can tell me if there is any kind of ramifications that can be done to possibly rectify this so others do not have to be insulted, humiliated, degraded and made to feel helpless then maybe the system could be what it was intended to be.

I fired the attorney shortly after that and my case was denied for the first time in June 2017. I found attorney #2 and he filed the Appeal for Reconsideration. Unfortunately, attorney #2 did not inform me that I could submit further medical records to update my case and also rebut the ridiculous DDS consultant's Residual Functional Capacity -like "Is capable of unlimited standing, crouching, walking, etc." In fact, attorney #2 did not even submit a request to the DDS asking for the documents they relied on to make the denial. I did that myself, after spinal surgery 2 and before knee surgery. And then I fired attorney #2. Before I had a chance to respond to the DDS, they issued the second denial.

I went online to submit a request for hearing but the system kept erroring out and would not take my online form. After a call to the SSA, it was discovered that attorney #2, whom I had fired 3 weeks before the 2nd denial was issued filed a Request for Hearing even though he was no longer my attorney and had no right to do so. His Request for Hearing canceled mine, which included updated information on my condition, which had worsened. So now my case, which meets the Listing 11.09 for MS, and never should have been denied in the first place, is stuck in queue waiting for a hearing.

A few weeks later, an MRI of the brain indicated I had developed new brain lesions and an MRI of my hip showed that I had torn the cartilage in my hip and will need a replacement. I called the ODAR for a status on my wait for hearing on 1/19/2018. The representative told me that my Request for Hearing was submitted on September 9, 2017 and it would be a MINIMUM OF 2 years for my case to make it in front of an ALJ, but If I get an eviction notice (I have a mortgage) or a utility shutoff I can contact my senator or ask that my case be expedited but not to count on that ever happening. This incredibly disgusting system fails on so many levels, it is beyond unacceptable. The Arizona DDS gets away with not following Listing Guidelines and the unlucky claimants often times end up getting sicker and sicker, as claims are erroneously denied and egregiously delayed.

Over the next 18 months, I made dozens of calls to Candace. I begged, I pleaded with her to resolve my case so I could start collecting the benefits I was entitled to. Eventually I had to sell our home without ever receiving benefits in Colorado. My daughter and I then moved to Kansas. I went to the local office and my new rep, Ryan, apologized profusely for what she had done. My daughter and I were homeless and living in a crappy motel because of Ms. **. Ryan checked what progress she had made, which turned out to be none. Candace had not even changed the jurisdiction of my case from Missouri to Colorado!! So how was she working on it??

I had complained to both her supervisor and the supervisor above them both. Nothing was ever done at the Colorado Springs office to help me in all that time. Thanks to Ryan, I finally got my payments and found a home to rent. He did more for me in 24 hours than Candace ** did in 24 months. Candace ruined my life. She cost my daughter and I everything we had of any value. Her inability or unwillingness to do her job properly is a disgrace to our government and as far as I know she was never even censured. That woman should be fired immediately and those above her put on notice not to fail like that again.

Once again, on hold for an hour, got a woman, very snotty, said she couldn't tell which offices I could go to other than the one downtown. Asked to speak to a supervisor, was told no. She offered a technical advisor but said he wouldn't be able to tell me more than she had (which was nothing), but I said, "Yes, I'll talk to him," and then she hung up on me! Calling for the 3rd time today now. Sitting on hold for the 3rd hour, I am, at the very least, going to lose another workday dealing with this. I could just cry, and then scream, then cry again... God help me when I actually retire and have to rely on social security!

A week goes by and I call again on the 5th and updated my banking info where I wouldn't have to wait on a paper check in the mail. Still no form of payment. I called today, November 13th, after I seen that my payment still haven't posted and my daughter couldn't have her outpatient surgery done, I went to the SAA building highly upset. I was again given the runaround. I bet if money was owed to them, they'd take it by any means. Money that’s DUE TO YOU regardless, they drag their feet paying you. I'm still waiting and my daughter needs her money ASAP!

I called my attorney and she put in for a way to get me expedited a bit sooner than the given time frame since I might not survive any longer living the way I have to. Yet still nothing from them. It's killing me to have to sleep in a back seat each night, not be able to properly clean myself, eating is tough. And finding anywhere I can legally park overnight to sleep where I don't have to pay is absolutely impossible. I don't know what else to do and all I'm waiting on is the approval letter and my checks to come in. It's been recorded on tape by the judge that I am approved. What more is there to do? I'm seriously afraid that by the time I get the approval letter, let alone any check, I might be dead. And I'm not overplaying this. I have to rely on medication to keep me alive and I have no money to pay for it, let alone the appointments to get the prescriptions.

She stated that “You can’t rush through this process.” She never listened nor heard my difficulty. We wasted much time. I grew frustrated with her reading comprehension queries and asked for another rep but was placed on hold again. After some time, I hung up as I grew tired of waiting. Fortunately, I was able to solve the problem by doing a general search and by placing several filters so that my target company appeared. But I am concerned for others who may encounter this same issue. Also, this type of condescension does not solve the problem: it creates problems.

Finally, my mom took the phone, Social Security number in hand, and waited the one hour to talk to someone and was quickly promised the form would be sent. It would take 10 freakin' days. It's been three weeks and we still haven't got it. It's hanging up a Reverse Mortgage and the money that is critically needed to survive. But, you can bet the Social Security Administration staff couldn't care less.

I repeatedly told her I never got that money and that is not true. I said let me see the paper that is saying I got that much money in 2015. Then the security guard came over and stood over me. The worker told me to go have a seat in the waiting area for a supervisor. I told her I wanted to talk to the manager and not the supervisor and how I know there is a difference. She again told me to just go have a seat in the waiting area. I went and had a seat and while I was waiting I stood up and asked the security guard for his name. He told me his name and I asked why he was standing over my chair listening to my private conversation with the Social Security Administration. He said he wanted to make sure there was no trouble. I said I consider that an invasion of my privacy and told him I would be writing a letter of complaint about him.

I then had to wait an hour to see the supervisor and not the manager like I asked for. The supervisor is usually a total witch to me but I guess she was in a better mood that day. She explained how this company paid me 5600.00 in 2015 and the IRS is reporting it. She said she would need a letter stating the company did not pay me 5600.00 in 2015 otherwise that would be considered an overpayment. She then told me the man's name on the paper and I recognized it as an attorney that filed a lawsuit on my behalf in 2015. I told her, "No I received 500.00 as a settlement in a lawsuit and the attorney received 5100.00." I said that is how they are saying I got 5600.00 apparently.

I left there and contacted the attorney and he told me he would straighten it out. I came in with an affidavit from him stating the breakdown of what happened and how I only got 500.00 out of the settlement. The worker I turned the affidavit and settlement agreement in with at Social Security told me she would not accepted a printed out copy. I told her the attorney emailed me it and I printed it out. I told her it was notarized and she said no they don't accept notary stamps and would only accept a notary from a sealed envelope from a court. I was furious that they make me run around doing all this stuff that is stressing me out making my anxiety go through the roof and have a hard time walking.

So, now the lawyer is sending me the originals in the mail to give to them. And how am I suppose to get a letter from a company that I settled a lawsuit with for them? I am just sick over this. I cannot afford to live without my SSI. I mean for God sakes I have duck tape on both of my 6 year old shoes and the worker at this office says to me SSI is a program for people in need. You don't think I'm in need when I can't even get my basic needs met. I haven't showered in a 14 months because I don't have a shower or bath I can use where I live. I am so disgusted with life as it is and now they are playing games with my SSI that I depend on to survive.

Original Review: Aug. 3, 2017

I called the Anderson County, SC Social Security Office after calling the Greenville County, SC Social Security Office (who were very nice btw & I have already written a review for them). I thought I had to go to Greenville County because my attorney told me for one form I did. On this form though Greenville County told me I could go to any office. The form in question is Disability Report-Appeal SSA-3441-BK. The instruction sheet says to complete as much of the form as you can & the parts you can't fill out they will help you when you make an appointment.

Anderson County, SC has less wait time so I called them to make an appointment like the paper said & the girl that answered didn't give a name (I had to call back & get it). She was extremely rude. I tried to tell her what I needed but she kept cutting me off. I finally told her that I was filling out this form & there looked like there would be some things I might need help with. First she told me they don't make appointments for that. Then she said they can't help at all. She said "Don't expect to come in here with a blank form & expect us to fill it out for you." She had totally ignored what I said in the beginning. I told her I just had some general questions about things like dates & things.

She was very condescending saying "What's so hard about it?" Well first of all I'm filling out a NEW SSI application & I'm filling out this at the same time. She was just very rude all the way around & didn't listen to me at all. Finally she practically shouted "General questions only. We can't help you fill out the file because we're the Social Security." Besides her being rude, not giving her name, & telling me they wouldn't help she wouldn't listen to me about the instructions & treated me like I was a total idiot. I thought it was required that anyone working for Social Security Offices had to give their name & ID # or whatever it's called. Do they not have to do that anymore?

Patience is a virtue, but the Social Security Administration’s representative was unfriendly, not helpful and extremely rude. I had to catch myself to not lose my temper at one point, for worry of reprisals, for they got your number and your info. Perhaps would be better to contract it out, even if it cost more, for then contractors would be rated for customer service, instead of brow beating the customers, who are elderly and needs more patience. Just my thoughts.

Well he passed away 6-16-17. I applied for the one time death benefit of $255.00 and was told I could not receive it due to an overpayment of $8700 to one of his children in 2007. Not once did we get a letter. Even when he reapplied for disability they had the opportunity to mention this, not give him the lump sum, keep his SSID checks until paid or file to not have to pay due to financial hardship. The child's mother who lives in California was receiving these obvious over payments but they wait until he dies when he cannot defend himself or state that he was never told to deny me his wife of almost 20 years a measly $255.00 because of their incompetence!!

I am struggling financially without him and am having to grieve the loss of my husband, best friend and soulmate who was only 56 when he died. Going down to the local social security office they are rude and treat you like you have some kind of disease or are trying to steal from the Social Security because $255.00 is such a large amount. I am disgusted that they would do that to me and wait 10 years to bring it up after he is dead and cannot even make arrangements. Had they said something years before he could have paid it or tried to not pay it due to financial hardship.

Why doesn't the mother of the children have to pay it back. She took the money. We did not and they were stupid enough to send it to her. They could attach her income tax returns if they wanted to. But no they have no empathy or compassion for the widow. They are a bunch of jerks and I hope I die before I have to collect my benefits as they are a miserable bunch of people to deal with in person and on the phone.

When I got the letter about an overpayment they would not tell me over the phone after being on hold for an hour and a half. I had to go to the local office who told me the amount but since I was not the mother that was getting the money (the payee) they could not tell me anymore even though I am his widow. Basically they said, "Oh well" and pushed the paperwork I handed to them back at me not EVEN looking at it.

Again disgusting people and no wonder our government is in such a shamble. Shame on you Social Security. You take money out of my check every pay check but you refuse to give a widow a small death benefit that would help with funeral cost as he has no life insurance or no assets. I would use profanity but I am better than they are. Again you disgust me.

I first dialed the callback number -- it's not in service; in other words they call out but you can't call them. So then I called the 800 number, went through the menu for information on the local office, and it tells me that there is no direct phone number for it. There are so many words and phrases to describe this but I'll settle for ought-to-be-criminal, given that they're sitting on my money and purposely preventing access. If I could I'd fire every one of them, top to bottom, because they all know how dysfunctional their system is and none of them care. ** them all.

When going back in after April of first perc meeting to return in June to hear from Ms. ** remembering hearing the day of my horrible interview and being yelled at and where I had been sitting. I was wondering why they can't be a little bit more kind, considerate, and caring. My entire leg had been crushed, broke main arm, with 180 degree of my foot severed, 5 operations and a major one to come. Then to be asked "How do I remember from so far back" and would not the average if they had gone thru this themselves. Like I replied "I was and had left Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour and restaurant after work and was on my way home when being hit by a hit and run diesel truck and hitting 2 walls on the 57 Freeway and taken to UCI Hospital as a blood loss and trauma patient." Please try to be patient and kind yourselves despite all matters and ask for a supervisor if needed. Eventually I guess this will all pass in time. Thank you!

It's an automated maze system that tries to sell me all this garbage I don't want and I never get to actually schedule an appointment after 15 minutes of pushing this button and that one to try to get to where I can actually schedule and appointment. So now, I have to go and sit there at the office and wait, because I have nothing better to do (like spending time with my disabled brother). My sympathy goes to anyone who does not have someone to advocate for them. What they do is nothing short of harassment! They take advantage of the weak and vulnerable by jerking them around in a system that I don't think THEY even understand! My next step is to take legal action and file a discrimination law suit! I am tired of being treated this way and tired of my poor disabled brother being threatened by these people. This must be stopped! It is inhumane to take advantage of the weak and vulnerable, and that's all this system is!

At the end of this month I will lose my home of 20+ years to foreclosure as I have not had the funds to pay my mortgage payment. This is a shame as in four years it would have been paid for. My credit rating has gone from a very healthy 729 to a very poor 590, all because of these clowns. A worthless bunch of government employees.

When I tell you these people are the worst wow. I mean I get they probably deal with some really ignorant people but someone just wanting to get your information to make sure you do your job appropriately. If you don't have to call these people don't. I don't know who trains these people but they are not being watched at all and there is no expectations of their workers.

Three weeks ago she called me and left a voice mail saying something about "overpayment dispute" paperwork. I already faxed the form the ssa.gov site tells you to fill out and they did get it, I called her back and left three voice mails. As of Thursday, 3 days ago, I was told only she can resolve the dispute and she's been on vacation for almost two weeks. Maybe she'd be back next week by Wednesday. No joke, this is what 2 separate agents told me. So, my spouse should get SSDI on June 3 but the website says (ssa.gov) he no longer gets SSDI but gets Medicare, and the SSDI payment will be applied to the overpayment, it says "the full SSDI payment of $1,***.00 / month is being withheld from your benefit payment."

So I of course faxed this and the info I sent two months ago including the overpayment dispute form from ssa.gov on Friday. The agents keep saying, "only the July 3 payment will be affected", anyone else ever have this happen? Their site shows no payments for months, accused of getting overpayment and our bank statements reflect the same damn thing. Now they're taking my husband's full SSDI benefit and only one moron at the local office can help this issue be resolved? I'm furious. Bank statements on their end and my bank statements don't lie, show the same deposits.

Oh and the reason they needed the 7 months is because they forgot to include the cafeteria plan which with that and creating a job my son NEVER HAD. Btw the job they created was my husband's which made the paystubs EXACTLY ALIKE for my husband and my son. Again my son has NEVER worked. Anyway with that mess allowed them to create an OVERPAYMENT that they don't seem to understand how to fix!!! Why are they NOT HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!!

Okay. My son's father doesn't want to pay his child support so he conjured up a world of lies to get us into court to try and get his child support reduce to zero because he claims to not have any income at the present time, so his father who is clearly sitting right next to his 35 year old son in court each time we have a court date, the same father who is employed with the Social Security office where we now lives is using illegal tactics like information from my files to try and benefit his son’s case.

I became aware of this when I received a appointment to come into the SS office at the same time and on the same date I was scheduled to be in court with his son when there was no reason for me to come into the office in the first place and daddy was very aware of the court date, secondly I had the case moved to the next city over, where he is presently a preacher at a church (yeah I said preacher) in this same city. Okay. When I talk to the new caseworker in this town she is already aware of why I am choosing to transfer the case only I didn't get to hear what she was told beforehand, so if not him directly then one of his coworkers is doing him the honors.

I get a letter almost every week asking for my income info from my job and every time I turn it in and each time I get a letter back stating she never received the documents, but get this all of the letters are coming from the same office I had the case transferred from which is the Selma Ala office, then I go into the office where I live now to inquire about it and they tell me, “no it’s from our office.” Are you freaking kidding me? And clearly the Selma office address is listed on the letter, so recently I got a letter from this same office (Selma office) stating my son's benefits will go to 0.00 because my income is too high yet you haven't received my information! Income that I have never made in my life, it's not my income nor is it any income that I reported on any documents.

It's also been put into the system that his son is paying $300.00 month to me when I don't receive a penny from him, but my caseworker states this is what's showing up in the system and at this point I am like “this is just crazy.” I just can't believe this man is getting away with all this destruction and nobody seems care. Someone has changed everything around in the system put information in my files that I have no clue as to what they are talking about and upon all of that I have filed an appeal three times already and nothing. Not a word. I have filed complaint after complaint even contacted the Attorney General and nothing. I have gone into the office several times so I can have a face to face interview with the caseworker and each time the person at the front desk tell me she's not in, I have called left messages. No return calls.

This entire ordeal have physically and mentally drained me. And I know when you read this you probably don't believe anyone can be this evil but this is the God loving truth. This is what I am dealing with. My son didn't ask to be in this condition and if I didn't need the help I wouldn't be going through this, but it is just sad that a person like this man can be hired to work in a federal establishment and be able to have access and the ability to do whatever they want with people files in order to gain over some personal vendetta against a citizens. I mean it’s just cruel and pure evil most importantly illegal. So if anyone can tell me where to go from here I would love some input.

Dealing with brain fog due to Lyme disease is an ongoing issue. My illness causes mental confusion, cognitive problems, memory issues, retention problems, nerve pain, loss of smell and taste, etc. I had been previously been diagnosed with degenerative brain disease. Long term treatment of Lyme disease is not covered by most insurance companies so patients pay out-of-pocket for their treatment programs. After explaining how Lyme disease had affected me, I felt pretty good about our meeting.

On the morning of the hearing, I told this new advocate that I had new problems with my thyroid, and was dealing with a DEVASTATING financial situation. The advocate went into a room to speak to the ALJ. She came out to get me and I remember telling the judge how I was feeling. The advocate did not say much of anything unlike my previous advocate. New advocate whisked me out into the hallway and asks me if I would take a "one time payout... you know like you got in Virginia?" These were the advocate's words. I was infected in Virginia back in 2002 but not diagnosed until 2003. I had to quit my job of 9 years to go through a long term antibiotic treatment program. I received two years closed period disability.

Anyway... this proposal took me by surprise. Mentally I was already fuzzy due to stress, brain fog, as well as low thyroid problems. A NEW financial issue was causing major stress! I was never told that the judge might do a "let’s make a deal" offer. I asked the advocate if I would be on disability? She said no. Advocate states that the judge would give me a more favorable decision if I would not go back any further than 2013. I asked her when did we file and are the kids supposed to get anything? This is something I knew but at this time I did not know or could not remember. Advocate fumbled through papers and I think she mumbled "09" but seemed to be unable or unwilling to answer questions about my kids receiving anything.

We went back into the room with the judge and I agreed to 2013 and then I DISAGREED. At this point, the Judge says to the advocate that she might want to take me outside to discuss again. We went back out into a hallway and then she motions to some papers and says: "Remember things change after you turn 50. Things are going to change because you are over 50." I asked her repeatedly what does this mean? No legible answer. She kept saying: "things were going to change." I went back into the room and agreed to 2013 but by this time I was really stressed. The ALJ asked me if I was depressed? I told him of course I was. Then he asked me about my thinking and I told him: "I felt like I was trying to think through mud." Everything he said after that felt very insincere. He motioned to advocate and stated: "another fine job Ms. **... case closed."

This advocate should have sat me down and talked to me about what I was going to be giving up in back pay... treatment money, the kid's money, etc. I could not even remember that my disease was a "pay-out-of-my-pocket" disease. I had some money in the bank but did not fully register... I needed clarity. For me, that back pay was life saving money for another treatment program if I have yet another severe relapse. Stress, brain fog, confusion, worry about finances and thyroid issues were not helping me think clearly that morning. I did not expect to have my disabilities and state of mind used against me. This advocate was not on my side and I am convinced that the ALJ knew that I was in a vulnerable position. That hearing has played out over and over again in my mind.

The morning after the hearing, I woke up thinking I dreamed the whole thing. I tried repeatedly to contact the advocate and she was not available. I asked to meet with the head of the law firm she works for but he did not want to meet with me. A call back was offered and then the advocate called me instead. I told the advocate exactly what I thought happened. I let her know that I remembered asking her important questions that either got no answer, a vague answer, or a very slow response. Her response? "You are NOT EVEN disabled... you work a job!! Besides... some advocates may make deals or have relationships with disability judges? But I don't. Oh and don't forget... it was YOUR decision. If you don't like it, you can appeal but I won't appeal it for you." I started to say how much I have suffered from all this and she began to mock me.

Maybe it is normal for a judge to want to work out a different date other than the onset date... but this is not how things played out. The ALJ knew I was confused... the advocate knew I was confused. There have been times early on where medical staff and friends strongly urged me to apply for disability but I did not. I am a fighter. My problems from degenerative brain disease, loss of smell and taste, nerve pain, and other ongoing issues with Lyme disease made me change my mind.

I have worked hard all my life so why trick me out of my back pay? I am not your normal disability case due to the fact that Chronic Lyme disease is much like HIV back in the 1980's. IT IS ONGOING AND THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE ARE PRETTY MUCH UNEDUCATED ABOUT LYME DISEASE. Since being infected in 2002, all my IRAS, CDS, and savings accounts have gone into treatments. Long term treatment is usually not covered by most insurance companies so patients pay out-of-pocket. While Medicaid will greatly help with the cost of medications... I will more than likely have to pay for the actual treatment program.

I have yet to find an attorney that will help me with this case. Sometimes the mental confusion can make dealing with dates and paperwork a real struggle. That is why I turned to an advocate in the first place. I lose track of things at times. I have had three attorneys outside the area reach out to me. One of those advised me that this firm had taken took too much out for pay. These attorneys said they could not fight for me due to travel costs eating up my back pay. I have reached out to Senators, Governors, etc. and looks like at this point everything just went back to the Social Security Administration.

Social Security has scheduled a hearing date for me but they are requesting all current medical information. None of the letters I have received from the SSA are addressing my complaint. I had faxed a letter to ODAR and I am pretty sure have mailed letters to them as well. I sent over all pertinent medical information via fax to Senators, Governors, etc. Being told that after months and months of being strung along that officials cannot help me with what SSA decides. Why did they want my medical information if the officials can't help me with this?? Letters from disability are more like "We understand you are not happy with being approved?" WHO WOULD NOT BE HAPPY WITH BEING APPROVED?

I currently do not have a Lyme disease specialist but I do still take antibiotics. This disease is chronic and I don't think my body can hold up to a third 8 month round of IV antibiotics. I still have oral antibiotics but take them on a pulse / as needed basis. Two weeks without antibiotics and I am unable to function. Antibiotics is not a cure but will at least hold the disease at bay! There are no Lyme disease specialists in South Carolina so I may have to venture to Florida. Keep in mind I have been traveling to see doctors since 2004. I moved from Virginia to South Carolina to be close to my Lyme doctor. He has since relocated his practice to Washington, DC. This doctor saved my life twice but he is very expensive and is now a plane trip / hotel stay away.

I feel like as of the middle of 2015 I have just gone around and around in circles trying to get help. I have lost track of all the emails, phone calls, people I have spoken to since 2015. I strongly feel like my upcoming court date is just going to be a way to take my disability away from me. Seems like there is no place to report an advocate when I was trying to back in 2015. Attorneys told me me they could not represent me because I won? How convenient... My thinking is often blurred and trying to keep everything straight at times is a challenge. Lyme disease is becoming an ENORMOUS epidemic. There is no one treatment for everybody and many of us suffer from co-infections as well. It is a disease affects people physically, emotionally, mentally and FINANCIALLY.

I called and the agent laughed at me. When he ask me why I was being so "hostile" I told him "I have bipolar and I didn't ask you for your rude opinion Alva or whatever your name is." This man tried to compare my case to a DUI case? What kind of people are you hiring government? This is not acceptable to act like that to someone with my disorder. I also have a learning disability. Always have. I was born with it. So sometimes I don't perceive the way you might, it's all just very confusing. This experience along with all the horrible reviews on how people like me are being treated just makes me want to give up. I just think it's very sad that everyone including me is being treated like this. This hurts my feelings knowing not even people who say they care a fake facade end up really showing you what humiliation is. At this point I don't know if it's even worth my sanity to keep fighting this battle, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

When two weeks came there still was no money deposited. I called the person we spoke with to sign paperwork for being his payee representative & setup direct deposit two weeks prior & he apologized that it didn't get put through. I told him we have utility cut off notices not to mention back rent not paid in full & asked if we can get an advance emergency payment to keep the utilities from getting cut off. I only make $10.60 per hour & trying to support two people put us behind on bills & rent. If it weren't for the fact my daughter is my landlady we would be homeless too. With having to take off work for his therapy & psychiatric appointments I lost pay & she thought I was deliberately holding back the full rent causing conflict in our relationship. I was told we would have to bring in the disconnect notice in order to get emergency funds.

On a Wednesday afternoon I took off work early because I discovered last time going in around 3:00 most of the people there for one thing or another had already been there & gone making parking easier & waiting to be taken care of much shorter time for waiting. We went downtown around 3:30 & paid for parking in a garage because there's no parking meters on the entire block only to find out they closed at noon nationwide. I asked the guards, "Really! Are you kidding me?" So I lost pay, wasted $6.00 on parking & gas to find out they are closed. You would think since they only work Monday through Friday they would be open. I know the checks go out the Wednesday of the week the birthday falls on so maybe it takes the entire staff to disperse checks & approve direct deposit?

I called today to find out how long it takes to get emergency payment & was told up to five days. I was also told the hold up on the rest of his money was at the payment processing department getting around to it. This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. With today's technology why is it taking so long to get funds deposited directly into a bank account. They haven't even sent the approval for being his payee representative which has interfered with talking with anyone about his pay.

This has really been a Royal pain trying to get his disability reinstated & paid. Something needs to change with all the issues putting unnecessary stress on us just to live & with today's technology you would think we could check online instead of sitting on hold for over 30 minutes to find out nothing is being done. No one there is on the same page because I keep getting different answers to the same questions. I would love to have their job at the pay they receive. I'm 61 years old & have paid into social security since I was 16 & feel they can definitely do a better job at getting people paid on time.

My mom left the office feeling very distressed over the whole experience. She still does not know if the paperwork was accurately filled out and really does not know the reason why she received it in the first place. She felt that the employee was not kind and willing to be patient and understanding towards her need of assistance. My mom said that she left the office building shaking and frustrated and also bewildered as to why she was treated in the way that she had been treated by this employee.

My mom is 84 years old, has Macular Degeneration, has just recently lost her husband, but otherwise is an intelligent and fairly independent individual who does need help from time to time in situations such as these. No one deserves to be treated unfairly and unjustly and especially by persons in the capacity such as this government paid individual. They are there to help, to guide and to instruct when there are questions. And treat people like they would want to be treated in the same circumstances.

My wife and I drove to another parking lot and I called the main Social Security number I normally call. I am told I will be getting a call back from them later that afternoon. They did call and when I told the woman what happened she got her supervisor to speak with me. I gave him the same information and he said he would take care of it. He made me a appt with another Social Security office. My spouse and I got there early and had to watch a rainbow pride flashing in front of us and everyone that announced they were now serving some same sex couples for four and a half hours. I am in renal failure, feel like crap and only want to get this done.

My turn came and I let the lady know I was recording this for my protection as well as hers. She was confused so I explained and then we got to trying to fix whatever was going on with my Medicaid. I was told my check would be reduced by 300 dollars because of spousal income but I would keep my SSI and Medicaid. I was happy everything was resolved. I get a Medicaid id and told I will receive a card in 7 to 10 days. I go to one doctor appointment after that using just my number because I hadn't received my card. I get some mail from social security and they took my SSI and Medicaid. I was blown away it wasn't what we were told.

I had fought from early July until mid-September and they decide even though there was no change in income owning anything new didn't receive money from anyone what my previous state and Social security said for over a year entitled me to keep my benefits when I married was not good enough for this state. Here it is Feb and I get a letter from them going back to when I reported my marriage saying they overpaid me but I can hire a. We get paid only if you get paid attorney to fight their claim of overpayment in the amount of ten thousand plus dollars. The attorney has to be approved by social security according to this letter as well.

I didn't record conversations until Social Security couldn't get anything right. One minute they claimed I live in South Carolina. No, I reported that move. Then, "Oh you live here." No, that is another state and I have never been there. Next they get the state I had moved to from South Carolina and say, "We don't have a report you moved..." to where I live now yet they say at the same time, "You live at blah..." and it is the address I reported. I kept all paperwork and what recordings I do have but how do you fight the government. It's bad enough I followed the rules for 13 years prior to this and had continued only to have it ripped away but now they claim I was overpaid. No I was not. I did as they told me every step of they way.

Attorneys tell me winning appeals claiming it was not your fault or it was their error never get won. After I got to see how social security broke the law I believe it. I intend to fight it even though both me and my spouse are 100 percent disabled and only have her disability. She was injured in the line of duty while serving as a police officer for over a decade. She can't comprehend how the law is being twisted. They give you payback options if it is under a certain amount but that is saying you did something wrong and you didn't. I am ** but ** on my birth certificate. I always hated the race card and denying one's religion to compensate for another. My heritage courts are used to get back our history. We protest nonviolent such as the pipeline. I see now I was wrong for not liking the so called race card and taking away from one religion to better off another.

The whole time I have been in this state being gay is like saying I have a contagious horrible life taking disease and the social security administration are doing the same thing. I was told "I am so sorry we just spent over a million dollars training our employees on how to deal with people like you." What? People like me?And that is suppose to comfort me?? I have to go to free clinics with horrible care a doctor who still thinks he is seeing me for the first time so all my illnesses that qualified me for SSI aren't getting treated. We are on the poverty line and not by choice. I have a college education and my wife protected our community until a call caused a injury that cost her career. Police aren't taken care of like people think. Work comp pays for her health care relating to the injuries she has thanks to a criminal.

This stuff is real. It hasn't happened only to me. People know the Social Security Administration is government so how do you fight it when they are wrong when they break the law?? We are going to have to declare bankruptcy when last June we had a two story house we worked hard to get and a yard for our dogs to play in. Now we have a 30 foot travel trailer we live in and a vehicle that is ten years younger than me. So I have the appointment to file either for a appeal, waiver or payment plan on a lesser amount than they say they overpaid me. You won't see truth like this in the news. Probably won't believe what I am saying. Nobody is immune however. It could be you.

Anyways I'm calling them tomorrow. It's all an error. I still live in my same address on file, phone number always the same for 2 and a half years. I have bills due on Feb 1st. The mess up part is I'm my mom's payee. She will have hers on my card. We live in the same house. Doesn't that register to someone in the office humm? Anyways I wonder how long I will get it back. Would they cut me an emergency check, anyone know? I have bills due, I can't afford this. I'm soo upset in the system, not one person called me to confirm it last month or this month. I hope this don't happens to no one else.

I walked in the first time my mother came with me. That kind of helps me win my case because I couldn't do anything for myself. My mom is on Social Security and she was helping me. I couldn't even function as a human being without medication. I was dead. I was staring into the wall. As soon as I got out of the military my post traumatic stress disorder was so bad they said "how come you can't be" and I said because I keep getting turned down. It took me twenty years just to get into the VA Healthcare System but I finally did get into it.

I'm seeing a counselor now and a pretty soon and getting ready to see a psychiatrist but I've been seeing a psychiatrist since 2000 since I got out of the army since I came back to this country. I was over in Iraq and Saudi Arabia in Kuwait in Germany. I was 11 Bravo infantry Ranger 12 Bravo combat engineer demolition specialist. So yeah they were kind of afraid of me. I know how to do things. I know a lot about tactical combat. I beat up 5 cops but I didn't go to jail for very long for it because I just got another military. I still have a military ID so that was in the my records so I had it paper trail being psycho and going to jail for it.

So when I walked in I asked for help. That was the hardest thing for me to do is to go ask for somebody for help but I did it and they gave me Social Security and they gave me a Medicaid. They gave me all the money that was owed to me cause I had some good jobs when I made enough money. I must have been like 37 or 38 when I got it. I'm 50 now and I've been seeing Mental Health Care Professionals and I've been seeing physical health doctors. I have back problems too. In fact they found out that I had cervical disc disease. The generator just disease end-stage arthritis skin cancer so when I got Social Security I got in just the right time. It was about 2008 when I got my check and it helped me out so I'm grateful for Social Security. They said they owed it to me because I serve my country and fight proud. That's why I got Social Security.

They said I earned it and that they owed it to me. That I could not function in the real world I would wind up in a mental institution because I'd already been to a mental institution twice now. I'm still working on my recovery. I'm trying to get better. At least now I can open up and tell people what my problem is and I'm starting to understand it more. But I'm still disabled and even more of the cancer went away but I still got all the other back issues. Then I'm still handicapped and people still won't hire me and I can't keep a job but I have been able to maintain a residency so that's a good thing. And I get food stamps so that helps me and now I'm getting all the doctor in psychiatric care that no man can ever ask for. I can getting all the help I need. Thank you Social Security. I bet they don't hear that enough.

My particular query is "what the ** do you people do all day?" While I am a Veteran, that "hurry up and wait" ** that I had to deal with while in the military no longer applies. I'm being told I'm waiting for someone to write up the decision. Do you all need some help? I believe I could write an entire thesis in the time it is taking you to write 16 pages tops. The sad thing is you probably know this. I'm told that if I am able, I can earn up to $1170 per month with Social Security Disability. I would like to offer my services. It's not my particular area of expertise but I can't be any slower than you are.

And if any of you who worked for the federal government we are all in the same sinking boat. I know for me after working 50 years and planning for my retirement both working for the federal government and also working for different companies so that I may also collect Social Security. I had to take a penalty because I could not draw full entitlement even though I worked enough time to do so. I told my wife that I wanted to send back the 0.3% but stated to voice my opinion. So the next time you offer this I hope that my time on this earth is looking from the brown side up.

According to Cancer Centers of America, "Many cancer patients experience gastrointestinal symptoms. The Nutrition Therapy team helps restore digestive health, prevent malnutrition and provide dietary recommendations during treatment. Our goal is to help you stay strong and nourished, so you can continue with your cancer treatment." I was not allowed basic nutrition. According to Beth ** the social Worker for the oncology unit at the cancer center I was at, stated a lot of people taking chemotherapy have lost their homes, we have two who live in their truck at the lake. So, this is acceptable health practices. In fact, it seems to be a way to keep people from healing.

I have been unable to heal from just those four chemo treatments and have gone from 125 pounds to 94 and I am probably less that at this time. I have an upper and lower GI scheduled for the 7th of January and I will not be able to do that because I am homeless, vomiting, I have diarrhea and I must take a medication for five days prior to my scheduled appointment that causes more of these problems. I have no appropriate nutrition but according to SSD I must keep all my scheduled Doctors appointments. I cannot do that. How do I poop and vomit without a toilet? When I am scheduled for surgery I have no place to heal. I have gallbladder stones. Need my gallbladder out (this doesn't seem to be a big deal) but without a place to heal it isn't going to happen.

I have contributed to my society by paying my government my taxes. I have gone from a woman with seven rental houses, holding a job, to one of lowest people on the societal food chain. I was a volunteer for over sixteen years. When I was in the seventh grade a representative of Social Security came into my government class and spoke on how our society and government works. I was told that when I contributed to my government they would take care of me in the event of disability and or retirement. This was a lie.

The purpose of this complaint isn't because I believe you will help me. It is a hope that somebody will take responsibility for changing the way things are done. We must be pro-active; help people in medical situations that allow them to heal, so they can become productive citizens again (right you want people to pay the government but we can't). This right or promise was taken from me. I am a dead woman walking. I will get cancer back if it isn't back already. However, with the dietary issues I am having I am losing weight at a pace that I will just drop from malnutrition in a very short period of time. It is over for me, but you can be pro-active so that others can heal and you the government can stop lying to the citizens of the United States and do what you claim or have promised.

I followed the only legal form of cancer treatment, I was told by the cancer oncologists that I would receive SSD while receiving chemotherapy. This was also a lie. I followed the law, I have supported my government that I had believed in. Where did it get me? I was a law-abiding citizen, I believed in my government, I have supported my government, and in return, I have no home, my health was taken from me, I cannot get a job, I have no roof, but the most important thing taken from me was my belief system of supporting my government and the medical establishment. I do not believe anymore.

In the middle of October, I again visited the local SSA office to get a status report. Again, I had to speak with a person with no name. She was more interested in talking about her personal problems than getting an update for me. She said she would make and inquiry but that she didn't see any information about what was happening to the claim. You guessed it. In the middle of November, I spoke with a different individual with no name and got the same runaround. The reason for them not wearing ID badges with names visible is so that people can't positively identify the miscreants by name in a formal complaint. I can understand not having their last names on an ID, but first names would be nice.

It is now the 16th of December and still no word on the claim. If Christmas comes and goes and the money hasn't arrived, I'm going to pay a personal visit to my Senator's local office and see how they might get involved. I'm certainly open for suggestions on getting this long overdue issue resolved. There is no order number because I can't include my brother's SSAN. Nevertheless, I hope this gets published because someone in authority may see this posting and choose to get involved.

I have written to the Ripoff Report. I believe that we have been targeted bad employee in Social Security who wants to cover up the mistakes that they have made. I was receiving SSDI and it was discontinued for 3 months after I complained with outside sources. All of a sudden I was informed that I would continue to receive SSDI. When I go on social Security website to print out information they have in there an old address. I have copies to prove this. I am not capable of receiving information that is needed. So I close the ssi website account. I have been working as well as my daughter and we are Start afraid that they will take our income taxes due to this scandal. I was only receiving $347 a month. A portion of this was to pay for an overpayment from child support and the second portion and $100 dollars went to pay for medical insurance, which early this year was no help.

I owe creditors, and hospital bills. I am in debt to the point of bankruptcy due to this matter. I have worked all my life and I feel that social security has failed me and others who asked for help and then have to pay back that help. I love America. Will Social Security give America a black eye. They don't want to help people that I truly in need of assistance without the struggle. I have been working and I will continue to work, and fight for justice for those who cannot speak for themselves. There are many elderly people they are doing this to. They can't eat desirable foods, many stand in lines in the cold to receive DARE TO CARE food from trucks, yet they receive over $700 a month in SSI payments. Is this morality? Our injustice to American people are pay bills.

This issue with Social security must be addressed, before it decays, the human spirit. They have lost homes and peace of mind, due the social security cruelty acts. I worked with a lady benefits were cut in half, because she worked and her rent was increased to $700. She was not aware of the ticket to work program. We can not let the elderly or any Americans rights to joy and happy living be demolished by a system of people who have taken Government jobs to punish people. We have rights and let's all continue to speak against injustice.

I have asked and mailed a request to go before an ALJ back on August 24, 2016 and was told it would take 3 months to happen. Well, now they don't even want to talk about. However, they can and will go to great lengths to cover their butts when they are caught in serious lies, and try to place the blame on the recipient. I have many boxes of lies and deceit that I want an ALJ to see. It seems though, all hope is in vain because look what they put in the White House to run this country. They don't even know where he come from.

After waiting on hold for 45 min the lady who answers was kind of rude but I just wanted to get it taken care of before they close. 2 min in and she says I can't be on the phone even though the payee (his mom, my MIL) says she doesn't mind me hearing her information and she needs my help because she is at work. Representative says ok and proceeds. She asks for his SS# and I start to tell it to her when his mom doesn't know it and she flips out on me saying I am not allowed to talk and she will not take any information from me.

My MIL and I are trying to tell her she doesn't have his info because she gave it all off to me when we moved out of state and she gets hostile and starts yelling and saying I am trying to break the rules. I have had to take care of things several time on the phone and as long as either my husband or his payee is there and says they can speak in front of me it has not been a problem. I say I want to talk to a manager and she says she is a manager and proceeds to freak out. I said I want HER manager and she hangs up on us! Now I have to wait another 45 min at least and may have to wait until tomorrow since it is now so late. Then, the survey asks me if I selected to get a call back - I WAS NEVER OFFERED a call back!! On hold again right now and there was still no way to request a call back.

I repeatedly asked her to let me speak to a supervisor and she began antagonizing me asking why I want to speak with one because they were only going to tell me the same thing she told me. She then placed me on hold for several minutes and said the supervisor would call me back in an hour. Then she placed me on another hold and said it would be 24 hours before I was contacted. So, my mother still doesn't know when she will receive her "lost" social security payment. She also doesn't know how she will pay her utilities due to the lack of funds.

My daughter began to get bored and starting to cry. The security guard then came up to me and told me "if you can't keep your baby quiet then you need to leave!!" I was astonished by this!! Of course I wasn't going to argue with him so I took my daughter and I left. I just can't believe the complete disregard for me and my child. Babies get fussy especially a 1 and a half year old that's been sitting in a stroller for over an hour at an office.

The SSA area bunch of criminals and thieves. I believe that more people should stand up and do whatever they can to fight back rather than just sit and complain about what the SSA is doing to them. One, two, three rejections for help doesn't mean you simply give up. If we all stand together we can make our politicians change the way SSA works and force them to actually help people rather than just throwing a monthly check at us to keep us quiet.

I believe that SSA should be more than a bank for us. It should actually help us live better lives by helping us get job training, and a good paying job, decent housing and money to pay the rent. The way the SSA works now doesn't really help anyone it just throws money at us to keep us in line. Well it's time for the SSA to be overhauled, investigated and the SSA employers and employees need to actually earn their paychecks and if they don't, can their sorry asses. Oh and they should have to earn the minimum wage and live on it as we do. I don't know about the rest of you but I've had enough of the SSA abuses and I intend to do whatever it takes to change the way it works!

Then I tried to call & was told the wait would be about 45 minutes! (Even to get to that point to hear about the wait time, the automatic voice prompts would not let me advance unless I practically yelled out the answers!) I don't have that kind of time to wait 45 mins unfortunately. I am simply trying to apply online for my benefits! Even the local offices use the same 800 no. (800) 772-1213. I will try again the next day & request a completely new password...I long for the days when one could get a live person to answer the phone...

So my question to him and every other worker that I have talked to at the SSA was how did they let that go for so long without catching it and nobody can give me a solid answer on what happened in my case. I have showed them all of the letters that SSA have sent me to prove my point. I have talked to everyone from my local office, to the 800# reps, to a lady in Baton Rouge and to me all of them are giving me the runaround. I went to my local office 8/10/2016 and I was told that my case was reinstated in 7/2016 but it is still being processed in the payment center in Baltimore, MD. I explained to him that I have been going back and forth with them for almost 2 years and I am now in a dire need situation. Every time I call and talk to someone about my situation, I get a different story.

I think it is very unfair that the SSA can do this to people whom already have challenges and something needs to be done. I have contemplated suicide on several different occasions because I am beyond my breaking point. I have been suffering for almost 2 years for a mistake that clearly someone at the SSA has made and all they can tell me to do is be patient. That is a lot of money hanging over my head and I cannot just be patient. My next step is to get my state representative involved and see if they can help me because so far SSA has been no help to me.

Since filing, I had to get a job a couple months after due to having no other income and was desperate. Ended up getting fired a few months later. Haven't been able to keep a job longer than 5 months because lack of appropriate treatment and inability to cope with the public. I was denied, and got an attorney to assist me, and got a court review. The judge was, to say the least, condescending with my case. I felt like I was treated like someone looking for a hand out, despite trying my hardest to be productive and having it thrown in my face. I was denied again, with the judge concluding that I could just take an office job. Not easy where I live when you not only have to compete for the job, but they require several years of experience.

I am still in the process if fighting for SSD, only to find out that my friend, who in the past four years developed Anxiety/depression, was fast tracked through all the paperwork, and approved on the first try. She had been working as well, as a CNA, a couple years before that before quitting her job. HOW THE HELL can someone, who has been suffering with illnesses like mine, who has had multiple hospitalizations, documentation, therapy sessions since the sixth grade, and proof be denied while someone who just developed problems only a few years ago be approved? Is it because I had to work (however short in duration they were)? Was it because at the time I couldn't afford therapy (and even now can't get in to see one due to insurance coverage)? I still can't get a job since no one is willing to hire someone who has these issues, which is understandable. It costs a business money if something goes wrong.

It may be me, but there seems to be a mixture of age discrimination there, as well as not taking mental illnesses seriously. You can't send someone to have a mental health evaluation for 30 mins and have a proper diagnosis (as well as that doctor is known to be a quack in our town and has a reputation of issuing incorrect diagnosis to patients). And simply denying over the fact that they have tried to work but either having to quit or get fired because of their medical problems? It's really, really sad seeing people take advantage of disability, while people with legitimate mental health problems are given this runaround.

This office is doing something wrong and I know it and I believe my family has been targeted as a way to retrieve money which was not anything I have done illegal. In addition, I have contacted the OIG in Atlanta to get turned away. Afterwards, on this past Friday, I contacted the 1-800-772-1213 number to be pushed off to the Baltimore MD Central Office 410-965-8882 who sent me right back to a 877-873-8882 number which was back to the local office where I am having the issue with. These people are giving me the run around while this office is taking money from my son's SSI and now has sent me a letter of taking thirty-two dollars from his Disability Checks. These people are wrong and they need to be stopped!

I kept trying and kept failing because the work was just too hard and I was endangering myself too greatly. I just simply couldn't do the work anymore. But, as another act of so called democracy, SSA now says I owe them over $33,000 00 in overpayment!!! And they stopped my SSA benefits, and threw me onto SSI and now they have reduced my benefits down to less than a $120.00 per month. Is this the NWO that is being thrown around DC? Would my outcome have been better if I was from Syria, or hide my personal info from Federal Investigations? I'm also, an ex-marine, honorably discharged from the US Marine Corps. What is actually taking place in this country? How am I supposed to survive with this so-called benefit? I rest my case. I leave you with this: I know where I was born, I know when I was born, I also know right from wrong, and wasn't ever a habitual liar, for any reason. Thank you.

For the life of me I do not understand why this system just doesn't work. I don't know whether they just discriminate on who they want. I am of spanish heritage. It makes me feel unworthy and depressed everyday to know that this is what people go through. I would have never imagine it because I never thought I would be one of them. I pray that I can get my disability but when I see what goes on it amazes me. The judge that heard my case denied me because there were 2 jobs that I should be able to do which at that time I did not know were the last 2 jobs I came off and cannot do. It's a shame Social Security is run by discriminatory idiots. The more they denied people the longer they keep their jobs doing the same crap over and over again. We the people should protest.

SS violated privacy medical and refuses to compensate, denies kids benefits who do not graduate on time removes benefits and wit proof of enrollment, denied SSI due and does not include behavior suspensions, etc towards benefits decisions and targets kids for shareholders' industrial complex industry. Denies back pay and full amount benefit if you review your statements, lack of yrs work earnings disregarded to lower benefits, denied reviews, disability, student loan discharges delayed, denied deliberately due to disability discrimination, retaliation. Denies kids medical, SSI, both parents' SS benefits for disability only due to civil and human rights violations. Denies ability to email documents, complaints, denies contact emails and is out of technology.

I called the 800 number for Social Security and was told "don't worry just go into your local office and request a "critical payment" and when you get the money back on your card just pay back the critical payment." I was so relieved to know I would be ok because I had a whole month to live and no money after this happened to me. I went down to my local Social Security office and was told by the worker I saw that they don't do that and he doesn't know why they would even tell me to go down there at all.

He told me to go have a seat and I could talk to a manager about it. I waited for an hour and a half and the manager was a total witch to me. She told me that "she knows me" and has dealt with me before. She accused me of doing this before which was a complete lie. I cried in front of her and she just said they were not going to give me anything.

I told her I have no money to live on. She said I have done this before. I asked her to look into my Social Security records and tell me exactly the date I have requested this before because I didn't even know what a critical payment was until the 800 number told me to go do it. She said she is not going to be looking up anything and they won't do that for me. I asked her if she was refusing to look up my records for me? She said she wasn't refusing to do anything and she won't be doing that for me. I then asked how I file a grievance against her. She told me to go look on the back wall for the information. I asked her to go get it for me and she told me no I can go get it.

I told her I was disabled and needed her assistance in finding it. She finally went and got it for me. It was a form saying "how are we doing?" I could not believe this woman and the abuse she subjected me to and she brings me some little survey asking "how are we doing?" Then the security guard stood up and walked behind me standing there. I asked if they were trying to intimidate me and if this is what they do to people that question anything. She said she wasn't doing anything to me and she will not be giving me any payment. I left distraught and even contemplated suicide over this. I got nowhere in trying to receive help when I was desperate.

This office has a history of being abusive to people. I went home and wrote a letter of discriminatory complaint to the Social Security administration about the manager and her employee being abusive to me and refusing to help me in my dire need. I called the 800 number back that told me to go there for the "critical payment" and now am told it is up to the discretion of the office to help you. The man on the phone said there must have been some reason that they would not help you? I am shocked they can treat people like this. I ended up going on Facebook and posting about the identity theft and finally the bank that issues the card responded and got my money back to my account. Normally it takes up to 45 to 90 days but I guess posting on Facebook helped me cause.

Social Security should be ashamed of themselves for how they treated me. I even said to the worker I first talked to should I just go off myself because I have no money to live on now and he could have cared less. It is disgraceful how you are treated in our country when you are poor. And Social Security claims they give exceptional service. I no longer trust my local office. I fear going in there now because of the manager having it in for me.

This involved deliberate negligence on the part of the Richmond California office. We were also treated with rudeness; their communication was incoherent and cryptic, and absolutely NO quality control, and we were even framed. I was in such a traumatic state that I didn’t (couldn’t) pursue legal help. I suspect there are many more beneficiaries who cannot fight back because of their own illness which they take advantage of. There should be no excuse for making overpayments due to administrative negligence. Why can't those who responsible for it be made to own up to it? Why can't they be made to pay out of their own salary? Why can't they be the first ones under scrutiny, as they should be, in a reconsideration? (It is a process which puts us through hell.) We experienced bullying at its worst, and to this day I feel really violated.

I am on the autism spectrum. I have a very traumatic past involving bullying and family abuse. In the way of bullying, this was yet the worst I had ever experienced. What I experienced was far from a humane caring organization – what I saw was a dictatorially run organization, an uncaring monolith which could not be touched, against which we have no voice and are powerless and one which deals with their own dysfunctionality and lack of competence by use of brutality, dishonesty, and covering up to the public. I think that having no social security system at all would be better than this because there is nothing worse than being lied to, misrepresented, being treated with ill respect, and being forced against one’s will to patronize such a system.

It is a sad world when a veteran risks their life for a country and returns a shell of what they once were only to have to fight for a judge to believe in an already VA determined 100 percent disability. This needs to change and I will help change this law. We need new laws to support our wounded veterans and ALJ judges need to be held accountable for going against the SSDI veteran laws. This practice is a disgrace on veterans. What she did in my opinion is a disgrace and I am glad the state is looking into this matter to help other veterans in the future. We deserve better. Good luck to anyone seeing this judge who is a veteran. You have an uphill battle.

I had got a job during 2nd quarter of 2011 after I graduated, and got my first (really crappy roach infested cheapest) apartment. Upon getting the job I visited their office and told them they can stop payments because I have a job now. They agreed (not telling me anything about the overpayments). Then they just asked for my address and I gave it to them.

About 2 months later I started receiving letters saying I owe them $8,673 dollars of overpayments for 2010. I called them asking if there was some sort of mistake, and they said no, and I also owe an additional $5,700 for SSI. I went down to their office explaining my situation and they gave me the option to file for an appeal, or file for a waiver. I tried filing a waiver, and they said it will take up to 3 months before I get a response. They told me I can continue to ignore the overpayment letters until this waiver gets filed. 6 months later (along with several checkup visits), I still received no update, and was continuing to getting threatening letters of garnishments. During my working period, I built up a credit score of 829 (with a perfect record of no late payments).

In the mid of 2012, I had lost my job and paid off my credit card (to ensure I would not be in any debt that could ruin my credit). I had been given the opportunity to move back in with my mother, and I took it. I went to the SSA offices after the move, and showed them what was going on. They gave me the option to file for an appeal, and I did. I got a phone call from one of the SSA reps who wanted to hear my side of the story. He said he would talk to them to try and straighten this out, and "it sounds like they don't know what they are doing, especially since you were homeless during those overpayments". 2 weeks later he called back and said he cancelled the court date, and cleared everything up so I won't hear from them again.

During the duration of living with my mother I had $0 income for 6 months. I was literally on my last $10 and had finished closing my bank account 3 days before I got offered another job. After 3 months of the new job, I moved back out into a room for rent (to stop the 1hr commute from my mother's). I got another letter (sent to my mother's address when I went to visit her), and it said if I don't pay back the amount of $14,000, they will start garnishing my wages, and they don't need proof or a court order to start the garnishments according to an act in 1996.

In 2013, I started to notice garnishments happening to my paycheck by 25%! I went to their office, and the lady told me because I failed to contact them about the overpayments from 2011, they will continue to garnish my wages until the amount of $21,000 (what the **? How did this amount increase $7,000 when I hadn't been paid anything since 2010!?) was paid off. I told her "I have been in contact with your guys' offices, and you guys told me it was dealt with and over." She said "we have no records of this." I told her "I will be suing your offices." Her response was "good luck."

10 months later after working 100hrs a week while trying to juggle finding a lawyer and getting together documents of all the SSA stuff, I couldn't afford the garnishments and was on the brink of being homeless again. I found an organization of disability rights act and they said they don't have any lawyers to help with a case like this, but they recommended me contacting my congressional representative. I did so, and the guy who agreed to take the case was named Anthony. He was able to get SSA to stop the garnishments, however the debt was still owed (and was $24,000. What the **. They stole $8000 from me and the amount I owed increased!?). 2 years and 400 emails back and forth later, the congressional rep said he was moving to Washington and had reassigned me to another rep.

After the stress of getting nowhere in 4 years, and the overwork with no extra hours paid for, I quit my job. I was on the brink of death (health wise). I had moved back in with my mother and devoted my full attention at trying to close this charade. 5 months later after talking to the new reps (for both congress and SSA) I realized all the work over last 4 years was for nothing and I was back at square 1. All I had was 3 gigabytes of recorded data showing how they are wrong and why I don't owe them anything. After the continued harassment of letters, I read online it was possible to file for bankruptcy. I thought to myself why not? They already destroyed my credit score (was 829, but went to 609 after the garnishments, and only thing I have bad payments on was SSA Offices). So I did. I hired an attorney and filed chapter 7 bankruptcy against SSA.

A month ago I received another letter from SSA. They said they just used my payments to pay off overpayments, and that I now owe for these overpayments. I contacted my lawyer and he said well this is a loophole and there is nothing he can do about this. I've snapped. I'm about to go postal. Is there anyone who can help me! IF SSA WON'T ALLOW ME TO WORK AND SUPPORT MYSELF I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER ALTERNATIVE THAN TO GET VIOLENT AND DECLARE WAR!

I have no concern for those of you who lose employment because of this major concern of the many who have lost their lives due to shortage of income, health hazards, etc. I hope everyone who reads this, their employment will be permanently lost. If only you can imagine the property people have lost over the social security administration, DSS, and the court system. The low-class citizens and veterans continue to struggle and survive out of shelters and missions everywhere, and they continue to stay in operation.

Whether you decide to help with this matter or not. I hope that your employment will be lost along with the rest. Our income ain't enough to satisfy a motel room, month to month basis. It's not your concern. So please don't try to sympathize of our pain of what we have lost. You and your supervisors and the taxpayers that support your payroll, should be cut from employment permanently. The media refuses to cover this matter. The middle and high class ignores this problem as a whole. When I find the solution to this matter, don't be surprised if your employment is jeopardized.

Terrorism is a must in your eyes along with everyone that is supported by taxpayers. You come live in our shoes for a week. You won't tolerate it for a day. Trust me on this. You have any idea of how many lawyers have refused our cases/claims, and our appeals go out the window. They get lost in the clutter. Don't exist to any of you. When judgment comes your way. I hope nightmares begin to haunt you every day, until this matter is resolved. A lawsuit will be placed on DSS, and the social security administration for removing our benefits that rightfully belong to us. I have every intention on bringing justice to all who ignore this message. We are being forced to pay back to what they claim we owe. No one talks or even mentions the enormous amount of funding that is donated to terrorism.

My daughter that is in the hands of the sperm donor's relatives, the courts refuse to assist us. DSS won't help at all. Every time we try to confront the matter to the supervisors, the sheriff's dept is called in. For what? Am I that much of a threat to the system? I promise all of you. I will jeopardize your employment if that's the last I do. Permanently for those who choose to ignore this matter.

I have been told this is in process. Neither Medicare or SS will give me any kind of written documentation of what I have been told, so I can't seek any new medical services, as these will not be processed until my reinstatement goes through. I am told the bottleneck is at the processing center. Though SS said it should take 2 weeks, according to Medicare it can take up to 60 days from when the processing center starts working on it. Even though I gave check to Medicare on February 11th, the processing center didn't start working on until March 10th, and that is only because I called on March 8th to complain that my reinstatement had not come through yet. So starting on the 10th they are telling me that I should have it by May 10th.

That is approximately 3 months from when I was approved for reinstatement. I understand that these are busy organizations but 3 months for a reinstatement? And their absolute refusal to give me any kind of assurance in writing. This is not only cruel and unusual treatment, this is actually a matter of life and death. These departments should be ashamed they treat us the citizens like this. This is not a favor they are doing for me, I paid for these benefits my entire working life, and now I am treated like a non entity. Shame on SS. Shame on Medicare.

I had to go through the congressman's office to get a receipt. It took until January for them to process the cancellation and provide a receipt for the cash repayment I hand-carried to their office. That's not even the worst part. Right before Christmas, my contract job ended and I had to RE-APPLY for my social security retirement. I was advised to apply in person, not online, to avoid further issues so I went down and applied the first week of January. My claim was initially denied simply because they were still in the process of cancelling the earlier claim that I had cancelled in writing in July! Again, I was advised to return to my local office to re-apply for SS retirement, which I did in February.

My local office in Oak Ridge, TN sat on the application for a month before forwarding it to the processing center (according to the processing center). It has been sitting in the processing center ever since. This morning I called the main number for my area in East Tennessee to check on the status not once but TWICE. Both times, I was stuck out on hold and sent to a telephone survey without anyone helping me. This information needs to go on the front pages of all the newspapers in Washington D.C. and every state capital until something is done about it. Our social security is in complete chaos with rude, unprofessional employees that refuse to help you. And these are the people I've been giving my taxes to all of these years!

The computer is a place where they can write and post messages to all that receive social security benefits, but they did not bother to post warnings that my benefits will be suspended. I don't want people to suffer so I suggest you do something to protect people as to the power of our US Constitution! The Social Security Administration has no right to stop benefits for any reason! That money is ours and we earned it. The consequences? No food, and now I will be left with nothing!

They claim I have been working a mysterious job I do not have, but can't tell me where, and that I also receive a pension that I do not get, nor have ever had. They also claim my spouse pulls in $304.00 a month from a mysterious job she doesn't work at either. Long story short I was told my SSI is no longer in effect, and I filed a reconsideration notice for an appeal. They sent me a letter with a hearing date on the 16th of this month and I have no money this month with a wife that is on temporary assistant and is medically exempt. I also have two young children, ages 4 and 6.

I think this is just wrong and why they couldn't turn on my benefits till the appeal is beyond me. I never received a phone call or notice giving me advanced notice to protect my benefits from being interrupted, and they had two years to do so. This is an injustice and I have always cooperated with S.S. and anything they requested over the past 15 years or so. How my wife and I prove we don't work, and that I don't receive a pension is a question you would think is easy to answer or figure out with computers today but S.S can't give me an answer on that. Thanks for reading my rant.

To my surprise it was a medical alert device marketing company that played a message about their product. Certainly not Medicare billing. I hung up not wanting to get into any kind of tangled web of phone calls, but the company did call back about a half hour after I had hung up. I'm wondering if these CSRs are getting paid to route people to these types of scams and if so why are they still working for Social Security. Or maybe SS has contracted the job out to contractors who do it and the CSRs are able to do what they want.

The woman was extremely nice and I wish I would of caught names now. She asked what I needed and I told her I needed to change my daughter's address in system because I moved and I need them to send me the 1099 form so I can start my taxes. So she proceeded to ask me the security questions about my daughter and I and when she asked me about an address that I lived at in 2009 I couldn't remember it. She sat on the phone with me while I was looking through paperwork and even trying to give me advice as to where I should look and who I could ask. Finally I said "I will just call back when I find it." So when I found it 10 minutes later I requested another call back as I did before and I received a call about 5 minutes later.

Now this time it was a different woman. She asked me what I needed and I told her the same thing I told the other woman. She then told me I would have to call the 1-800 number and she couldn't help me. I told her that I was just talking to someone from Social Security who called me back and she was helping me with it. She then very rudely told me the same thing and then hung up on me. I'm extremely disappointed. Why would that option even pop up on the screen if I couldn't use it. I really wish I would of caught this woman's name. From now on I will always write down names. I'm not done with complaints either. They call from Washington too.

The gentleman there asked me what I was there for and I told him I was missing my January Check that was supposed to be deposited in my bank account. He then asked me for my driver's license and then while he was looking at the computer screen he said, "You should have gotten your payment already," because it shows it in their computer I was paid. He then told me wait for 3 days and then call social security and someone could help me further because they want you to wait 3 business days before you call about a missing payment.

So I left and on the 3rd day, I called social security back to find out where is my missing January payment. I had to wait 30 minutes or get a call back because they were so busy at the moment. So I elected to get a call back in 30 minutes because I didn't want to wait on the phone for half an hour. So I finally received a call back from social security and the lady who answered sounded foreign and was sniffling and sounded like she had a cold. Anyway, she asked me a bunch of questions to verify that I was the person who was associated with the account and afterwards she said, "OK, I will put you on hold for a few and get back to you."

So I waited about 5 minutes then she came back on and asked me for my banking route number. I repeated it to her and she said, "You were paid on December 31st for your January payment." I asked her, "OK where is my December payment?" She said, "You got your payment," and I said my award letter says I will receive Decembers payment for December at the end of the month. And I was told by the agent when I applied the reason I didn't get my social security before Christmas because of the holidays that I would receive my payment at the end of December. So when I called, she said my payment for January was December 31, 2015, because they pay early on January because of the holidays. I told her my award does not say that and I was told my December payment was for December and after explaining she said, "Your payment for January has been paid."

She hung up at that point and my wife was sitting there looking at me saying what did she say. I told her I am not getting any payment for January. They said I had already received it. She looked at my award letter and said that "Your award says you will get your payment stating in December." I said, "Yeah, I know." Here is what my award letter says...

Now, what would you think and I was told this is my December payment and I would receive other payments after this on the 3rd of each month. Okay, where is my January payment? I was told I received it and that was the end of discussion. So what does one do when they are ripped off out of their money by the social security administration? I was told my next payment would be February 3rd, 2016. So I left without money because I had to pay my rent and bills for December waiting for my social security. Now I am broke and have to wait another month to get any money.

What kind of system do we have that can just rip people off and you cannot do anything about it? This is my story. Good luck dealing with the social security administration. They are not out to help you but to refuse any money you may have coming to you. From a senior American citizen who has worked all his life and retired to hear that people entering our country get more money and help and receive more than we do with no problems but an American citizen cannot even get justice and get paid for retirement. What a messed up country we live in.

Later, another told me I had to receive at least one payment before I could suspend. The third representative finally said I could suspend, but only after receiving 3 payments since I am just now filing. Two of them became argumentative when I explained that I had requested the file & suspend two months ago. I was told there was no record of my having made such a request. Now I am writing a letter and seeking telephone records to prove that I talked to their office twice in October. These people should be fired. They are a total waste of taxpayer money. There needs to be a significant improvement in training, including attitude.

Today I called and spoke to a representative who said she couldn't find that my wife was drawing SSI benefits. I asked for a manager and tried to explain to him, but he said he had been briefed. He said my wife's benefits were coming from Railroad Retirement which is not so. She has an account set up online for her SSI benefits which clearly show she is drawing it and Medicare deductions were made for five months. I explained to the manager I was looking at her SSI records of payments; he said "I am going to end this call." I said "I wish you would you dumb." These two people were the most unknowledgeable people to be working in their position. Their tone was very very sarcastic throughout the conversation. This problem has been going since August and SSI owes my wife $524.50 which according to them there is no way to get back.

Well, during my two hearings with the Judge, he had ordered me to see 2 different doctors. One was nice but the 2nd was a psychologist whom at first was nice until I told him I had filed a complaint against a psychiatrist over an incident that occurred before I even my brain tumor was found. And I didn't even get a chance to say that, much less explain anything about it which I should not have to do that anyone seeing as it was none of the psychologist business. But he, right before my eyes with no care or restraint, changed from nice to very rude and hateful where he even slapped his leg in frustration because after he asked me the 2nd time if I had ever been arrested, I stated again "no" which is the truth. And to be honest, I have never even had a speeding ticket and also worked for my state's police department for a short period with my 23 years in all working for Georgia State Government.

I am still very upset over this but when I reported this to Social Security staff, they more or less took away my SSI and threatened in 3 years to take away my SSD. This is not the America I grew up believing in. Also, I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder at the young age of 23. I had been on medication all my life since the diagnosis of different types to treat it but Social Security somehow erased this fact from my records. And even though I have papers of my doctor who diagnosed me with the words anxiety/panic disorder on my paperwork that I could not believe I still had from 1993. And the caseworker who interviewed me after the judge's decisions basically told me we don't have any legal rights anymore and they can look into my private bank account and don't need a power of attorney or anything of that matter to do so. What the hell is going on in this nation?

I have been writing in stating that in 3 months Social Security took over $700 from me. And when I file for an appeal, they didn't file it. When I filed a reconsideration, they didn't file it. When I send in a waiver, they didn't file it. They did not call me one time in over 5 months. They did not write me with the respond to my reconsiderations or my waiver. I emailed Social Security Administration at Sheila Everett. She is the Commissioner in Dallas Texas for Social Security Administration. She is over the Dallas regional office that filed the charges and why, why lie on someone and have them falsely locked up just because your job allows you to?

I am willing to take a lie detector test that I have never threaten Social Security and I will love the world to listen to my recordings of how they act on the phone. When you call up there never even knew the email work because they never emailed me back so in over 5 months Social Security has taken over $700 from me, 4 times in 6 months they have had my income wrong in the snap system in Texas causing me to get lesser food stamps. They have called other programs in Texas and told them not to help me. They have put over $2,000 in wrong overpayments on my case. They have took my rights to file a hearing. I cannot file a hearing until they file my reconsideration so they are getting away with taking my rights to submit my forms. I also let everyone who l wrote to the Social Security will make up false threats on people just to ban them from Social Security.

I was willing to show the proof to anyone. The only thing happen out of me trying to get help and out of me trying to stop Social Security from dragging someone else from through the program like they are dragging me. Only thing happen is Social Security wrote Homeland Security and said I threaten them on the phone. And all along I was recording the whole phone call there is no threat on there and no one will listen to this so when I told Homeland Security I had the recorded phone call of me and social security then they left my home. They came back two weeks later and said "oh well Social Security want to file harassment charges." Harassment charges because I am asking them can I have my rights and file my reconsiderations, file my appeals, look at my waiver.

Instead of them calling me at least once, or emailing me at least once, or writing me at least once in over 5 months, the only thing they done is had me arrested for harassment. Now I am 42 years old and I do not have a criminal record. And before Social Security abuse their authority with Homeland Security, I had never been arrested before in my life. Social Security had me arrested for checking on my forms after I told Homeland Security they made up of false threat. Nobody cares about that all this is true. I have proof on all of this. Someone needs to be over Social Security. They like a crook without a gun. They're a criminal with a job. Social Security Administration had me drove all the way to another city to be locked up. So I was locked up for the first time in my life off of government misconduct.

Now we need help with this program and we need it bad. I am facing up to six months in jail for this harassment charge that Social Security falsely made up. They also sent me to one of their Dallas judge that they know and anything can happen to me. When I going to court I am praying somebody help me. A lawyer help me with my civil rights because Social Security never filed my forms, they never responded to me to even let me know they were getting my form so how could I be harassing them by checking on them?

The only thing I have is recorded phone calls from Sarah ** from Social Security in Dallas regional office, being very rude over the phone telling me they would do whatever they want to with my case and no one will do anything about it, yelling at me, hanging up, laughing at me, saying "oh I thought you had a lawyer you said you was go get a lawyer", and laughing and hanging up, dialing numbers in my ear, talking to me like I'm a ant on the ground.

We need these people in the Dallas regional office replace any time. We have someone so heartless they don't care about writing false reports to have people arrested. Nothing in the world is that serious. Anytime we have someone willing to do their own rules on their job instead of the rules of the program. They don't need to be at work. They need to be getting mental health because your own personal feelings should not overweight the rules you should be enforcing. And something is going wrong here. They have the license to kill, the license to lock up, the license to take a life. We need to put an end to this.

Everyone who call Social Security Start recording them. We need everyone to speak up on how we are being treated in this world. Sometimes it takes more than one voice. Why are we on this program just to be beat on with no one to run to? I need help. The world need the president to do some about this program and I need prayer everybody. Pray for me. We need to do something about this government misconduct. If you look it up, it's the second reason to falsely be arrested. I thought we have went past this in the world. I was locked up and chained away like the slaves in the 1400.

Now it is being taken out again. I have never been provided with any figures - such as how much they claim I owe. I don't know who filed the claim. All I know it was the Dept. of Education somewhere. I don't know what to do or where to go because it seems as if I have contacted everyone only to be told, "We don't handle matters like this." Social Security Administration refuses to talk to me or provide me with any information. Without that - I can't backtrack to discover just where the original problem began. Who started it up again after I got it stopped. I can't believe this is happening in the United States of America. Can anyone give me any advice? Please. I would be most grateful.

If that is true, then why can't we? The hold time was 45 minutes a few months ago, so I started mailing the check because when you are on your job, no employer will allow you to hold on the phone for over 22 to 45 minutes with Social Security when they are being paying you to work. If you try to call after 4:30, the office to make a payment over the phone is closed. There need to be an automated system that will allow the payment to be made timely and without rude Social Security Representatives. Is this our government at its best? We need help!!

I have received a State of New Jersey Teacher's Disability Pension after much fighting and getting support from State Senator Patrick Sweeney but it is 42% of my original salary and I can no longer continue to live on this alone. I have also applied for Social Security disability and am at the stage of waiting for a hearing which is due to occur sometime early summer. At this point in time unless I default on my bills and sell my car I will not be able to survive on 42% of my initial salary which I receive once a month, which is slightly over $2,500 per month. I know there are others in more dire circumstances than I but I don't think the fact that I cannot work a non-teaching part-time job without possibly losing my social security hearing.

I am disgusted that there aren't other services I can turn to for support. I would not have applied for social security unless I needed it and I think it unfair that now that I am mentally capable of doing limited work and my self-esteem has improved enabling me to do some kind of flexible work that I cannot work without placing my social security hearing in jeopardy. It seems I'd be better off dead than dealing with this crap any longer. I am tired of fighting and being HIV+, it's wearing me out faster than most.

The second time, (after the first one told me there was no record) the person told me they did see where I had originally applied months earlier. Is this some kind of scam they are using now instead of the automatic denial of claims? I am 60, and have a debilitating neurological disorder that totally impairs me daily. I have held off applying for benefits despite having lost my employment due to this two years ago, going to doctors and trying to find out what's wrong with me. My family has been paying my medical insurance, medical bills (which have been substantial) and living expenses.

Basically they're just waiting for me to die and sweep under the carpet. I made an appointment over the phone and was told to bring a list of my medication, 40 pills a day, and doctor's letters explaining the condition and how it probably won't ever be controlled since no medication has worked completely. I sat down at the ss desk and the jerk started tapping on his computer and refused to even look at the paperwork I was instructed to bring. Right there at the desk he said no. What hell?!!! Apparently the only way I can possibly get social security is to gain 300 lbs. Obesity seems to be the only way to win.

They used my age and old work history against me, knowing I have been filing ever since 2005. I think the system is biased and discriminatory. They know I can't work no more and I've been going thru circles ever since, but they give it to junkies and other people that don't need it than people that do. I want my money I busted my ass for back. If I can't get no benefits, what do people pay into this for if and when they do end up no longer able to work, and have documents to prove it. But that don't mean anything to them, that's why I feel this way. Does this look like fun to you?

I give back the phone to my mother and she asked for a Chinese translator. The support said hold on and got one. But wait one second, the call is compromised when I'm translating but isn't when another translator is translating? Anyway, she asked the basic questions again and got through with it with ease. Then out of nowhere she said that we cannot complete this call. My mom tried to answer back but she retorted back saying "I don't care" in an extremely rude and unprofessional way. The translator then translated what the support said. However, this support interrupted her to say "I don't care" once more but with more rudeness added into it. She then hung up. We couldn't say thank you to the translator or anything. Extremely rude and hopefully this person gets fired. Hopefully when we go to the office, we can get someone who's more caring than the one on the phone.

We were advised on our last visit to SSA office to go to immigration office to resolve. We went to immigration office and they said it was impossible to changes with immigration because Brazilian birth certificates are written with multiple first names. She is here the USA for approximately two months and needs to file a tax return, but she can't without a resolution to this issue. The SSA office have washed their hands of the issue. We only want to be legal and file taxes and yet the system is working against us.

This should be enough to identify me as his payee. All I want to know is have they received the money from this woman and if so when will he receive it. Because last month I had to pay for his prescriptions, food, toiletries, etc. out of my own money and I'm not wealthy. I can't afford to do this. Plus it is his money and I think the woman from Concord Mental Health stole it. She has flat out accused me of stealing it but if I had stolen it then there would be a record of it being direct deposited into his account and a record of me removing it from his account. There is no such record. I just want to know where his money is. But the ** at social security decides to ask me what is his father's first name? Excuse me? Since when is that a question? How the hell would I know his father's first name?

They have never asked me that question before or since. The next time I called I'm asked not just the state of his birth but the city. And now today I have still answered all the questions correctly but she tells me I'm wrong about his birth date. Funny because the day before when she hung up on me that was the same date I gave her and it was correct. I asked to speak to her supervisor and she refused. Then she hung up on me again.

I'm tired of this. I am his payee and he is missing money. I need to know whether or not social security ever received the money back from Concord Mental Health because if they have not then this woman is lying and she kept it. I don't understand why I am getting the runaround from social security but the employees are rude, unhelpful, and act like they are better than anyone else. They need to be knocked down a peg or two and remember who pays their salaries.

I seen my neighbors out relaxing in their pool yesterday as I was leaving for work. Their mother is on drugs so she receives ssi along with seven other checks because all her children have mental problems. She receives over 2,000 a month in food stamps, lives in a house that section 8 pays for, and receives help paying her utilities. They sleep all day long and party til the wee hours of the morning. I met her in a convenience store where she was purchasing 5 20.00 lottery tickets and plenty of soda and snacks. Her mother who also lives with her - receives ssi payments also. No one in the household has ever held a job. I believe the system is broken and we need to investigate all these scammers. Does anyone realize we are paying more in disability benefits than social security benefits for our retirees who worked their whole lives? Most of these people never paid in.

Also, Bakersfield, Ca has the worst SSA office (Office Park) that you would ever want to deal with. They have lost mine and my ex's paperwork, they tell you lies by saying that they will call you, and misinform you on information. My ex had an over payment, and instead of letting him pay it back then and there when he reported it, they sent him a letter a month later and said that they had cut him off because he had too much money for June. Now he is dealing with an appeal. By their own rules, a single person is allowed $2,000. With the payback that would have put him below that. This branch of the SSA doesn't even go by their own rules. They make the disabled feel like third class citizens, and it physically makes me sick to deal with them. A BIG investigation and house cleaning needs to be done with this entity!!

My father had helped me out with his cards and I had been paying them. Now I couldn't meet those payments. Everything kept getting worse and worse. Disconnections, owing 2 bills or more on everything and trying to at least pay the past due, six months behind in lot and mobile home payments. Then I lost my job in November, with all of this on my shoulders. Finally, in March I had to file a bankruptcy. I had to surrender my vehicles. But I could not put a couple of things in that were in arrears. I am collecting unemployment and my husband is on disability. We cannot get caught up. We have had to cancel doctor appointments due to lack of the co-pay and have gone without medication for the same reason. We are still on the verge of being homeless. And if they would just give me back the money that, when I read the paperwork, they should have never taken as long as I was current with my payments!

I even tried writing to congressman 1 from Indiana and 1 from Illinois which did no good cuz all they did was pass me to the next one and like nothing with no help from any of these people who are supposed to be working for the people. Instead I felt like they were working against me and my family and they expect us to vote on them. Now I know better. Thanks for listening.

When I arrived today there were several employees working, but 1 employee sitting at her window typing. I slowly approached, after taking a number, and let her know I had original certificates and was told I would not have to wait. She tells me that everybody waits every time. Unfortunately I did not have that kind of time to wait today, as my husband is having a bad week; in a lot of pain and I didn't feel good about being gone for long. (I had to leave him alone to do this. No one else was available to stay with him but this was on his list of loose ends and because of his loss of income he has been worried about it. He is worried about making sure everything is in place, even though he shouldn't be thinking about that now with all the pain and other things he's enduring.)

Anyways, I explained to the representative that I left him at home and was hoping the info I had been given last time was accurate. I made the mistake of asking if she was certain. I could have handled her giving me a firm yes. I was willing to try coming back another time, even though he would not have had the peace of knowing it was taken care of. I could have handled that. But what upset me was that she said, "look, everybody here has something. And they are all waiting patiently. Do you think you are more important than them? It's all in the way you look at it. You decide. No, everyone is the same here."

Now, I'm a glass half-full kind of person and that's what has gotten me this far without cracking. I have to be strong right now. But that was too much for me today as I am worn down too. Had a good cry in my car before leaving. Just bad timing, I guess. I know they deal with impatient people all the time but that just wasn't my intention. A little more sensitivity to the humbling and painful end-of-life situation we are dealing with would have been nice today, that's all. Probably not a consumer affairs issue but I wanted to put it out there. Fortunately the 2 employees that helped us previously had been compassionate, with my husband present but struggling.

I called my local office and they had no idea who I was nor did they have a record of receiving a call. I've called the Dept. of Treasury - they say I should have received my replacement check by now. This entire ordeal has been mishandled at the very least and most frustrating is I've caught several ssa reps in a blatant lie. Either that or they do not know that check replacement policy at all as was the case with Mr. ** in my field office on Valencia St. I don't understand why the check replacement wasn't started on the first of April when it was scanned in. This is totally ridiculous and I intend to continue to file complaints and make daily calls to the payment center in Richmond CA and call soc. sec. daily as well. Lastly I have one thing to say - shame on you.

My daughter just turned 19 and was looking to get a job and applying to several colleges for the fall 2015. When she applied for a job, the company wanted to see her SS Card, so we went to our local SS office to apply for a new card (which is normal). We were told she was not a citizen, which shocked us. They wanted to see her citizenship papers to issue her a new card. Since both papers were lost, we had to request a replacement. We paid $345 in February to obtain the replacement documents. Now my daughter applied to a dozen colleges and got into all of them. She had to file FASFA forms to receive college loans, etc. SS told FASFA she was not a citizen and therefore she could not obtain student loans.

USCIS has a way to expedite the records since we were told it will take 6 months to obtain them normally. I DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE. In fact, I earned poverty level money last year. I requested that they expedite the records since she will not be able to get a job and go to college without her SS card. USCIS and SS are blaming each other, and USCIS on two separate occasions said although the situation appears serious they have to deny the request, since it is not a dire circumstance. I have now gotten my Congressman involved. There is so much incompetency in the government and if a politician's daughter had my daughter's problem they would think it is a dire circumstance. That is one of the reasons why they have an "expedited" case.

So I went home & called ssi & the lady I spoke with from Ogden Utah said that wasn't true & blamed it onto workforce services. She assured me my address was in there correctly & that my case was absolutely fine & I would receive my full benefits for April 2015, so I got off the phone with her feeling like everything was resolved. 10-15 minutes later I receive a phone call from ssi, a lady saying she's my caseworker, the same one that messed my case up before. She seems to take great pride in messing with my case, is extremely rude & arrogant to me, yes I've been rude right back. She is able to mess with my case in such a way that it's legal. So I don't like this lady, she has caused me nothing but hardship & homelessness since last year & seems to enjoy doing it, she destroyed the holidays for us this last year.

When she got on the phone with me she ripped me a new one, like she did the last time we spoke in December 2014 while my son & I were staying in a women's shelter, about how I was NOT supposed to call the 1800# to report changes to my case, that I am supposed to call her directly. Even though I've never heard of this woman prior to all of this. She says her name and direct extension are on each of my ssi letters. I've looked at my letters since she's told me this & can tell you than her name or extension has never once been on any of my letters. So today I finally got her name & her extension if I have to reach her again (which honestly now I fear doing, because reporting changes has only hurt my son & I financially). She then asked me if I had a roommate, which I do, I couldn't afford this place if I didn't (couldn't continue being homeless to wait for housing to kick in).

My roommate is my daughter who's on welfare, with three of her own children to support, so believe me, not a penny of her money goes towards me. We split the bills - part are hers, part are mine. The case worker took all of my daughter's & her children's personal information & my son's. She assured me she wouldn't be messing with my case, that I wouldn't be losing my income again, that I wouldn't end up homeless again because of her. I hang up again feeling like things were resolved. Then I receive a letter & am now losing the same amount of money again around $250 for April 2015 & May 2015, cause it will take them another two months to work out this new problem - that's just how ssi is apparently.

I call Ogden Utah ssi again today & at first they tell me it's because of my daughter's income that I'm losing this $, then they change their minds and tell me it's because I reported this change after the sixth of this month & so it will take two months for them to get it worked out & that they don't have to pay me this money back when they do work it out. They don't care that I no longer have the $ I need to pay my rent & that by them doing this is going to make my son & I homeless yet again..... The reason I feel like I'm being harassed, and I know this is going to sound paranoid, but I think it's my sister's ex husband's new wife that is causing these problems for me and I would like her investigated. Her name is **, she works for workforce Services. If it isn't her directly, it's someone she knows. I will get to the bottom of this if I have to continue to file complaints all accross this country until I have it investigated & her investigated.

It's funny to me that I've been on ssi since 2004, reported the same changes at different times & never had these problems until now. This ** has also messed with my sister's case. It was never proven because my sister never pursued her complaints. I however intend to. My sister's boys were adopted by this woman & before the adoption went through she had been bragging to my sister's sons about how she was purposely messing with my sister's case. I've been told that she would work in the same building my case goes through. It wouldn't be too far fetched for her to sit at other people's cubicles to make changes to my case, or have her friend do it for her, she's done it before (just because she's a state worker doesn't make her immune to using her job as a weapon to hurt people, she got away with it with my sister, so now she has a God complex).

Because believe me, this caseworker of mine has been anything but friendly to me.... These are not $ changes. First time was an address change & so was the second time. I feel like I'm being harassed & discriminated against & those are the only theories I can come up with as to why. The first income decrease made me & my 15 year old son homeless. I fear this will happen again this time because now I won't have the money I need to pay my rent. Anytime I've reported a changes in my address prior to August 2015 I have never had these problems. Now I feel like I'm under a microscope. If you want more details please have someone contact me. It's difficult for me to type it all out. Thanks.

I pleaded with her my condition was getting worse and I needed to see a doctor finally I left a message that maybe I needed an attorney that was on a Friday on Monday. ** called me back. I asked her why I was only given hospital coverage and not part B or D. She replied "I don't know". I asked how can I get help my condition is critical. She replied "I don't know". I asked who can I speak to do that I may get help again. She replied "I don't know". I have sat at social security office for 6 hours twice spoken to a supervisor **. Wrote a formal complaint to ** with no results.

My condition was stage 4 and had I gotten the care I needed I would not have gotten this serious in such a short time. I had to go to the emergency room in February 8, where I had to get an emergency procedure to start me on dialysis instead of the normal procedure where they put the shunt in your arm and that's how the dialysis is administered but I have to have a catheter in my chest and neck area. I am at end stage renal failure now due to all the delays and I will still have to endure the pain of the catheter removed and a shunt put in very soon. The catheter can only last two months with fear of infections. I feel this was all unnecessary due to **.

Non-action and non-caring actions. I don't understand why she is working and not doing her job or if she can't help then refer to someone who can help. I have a heart condition among a lot if other conditions that needs immediate attention. How long do I have to wait for the help I need. Or is it cheaper for me to die that way I go away. It's been six months since I started asking for help I take 20 different medications that I have to pay for. I have used up all our savings on trying to stay alive. Please help. Don't know what to do.

I found out by calling SSA that someone had changed my application at my court hearing to WC, what the **!!! I NEVER checked WC but someone changed it on me without my knowledge. When I went to the SSA office they told me a private LTD insurance payment is considered a state benefit and can be deducted (WRONG!!!). I did receive LTD from my last employer but they had stop payments 12/2013 (This is not WC or state disability payments). My LTD contract states any money I get for SSDI I have to pay back to the LTD company, so in essence LTD is saying I have to pay back the SSDI and SSDI is saying they're going to deduct my LTD. My lawyer is mad and sending off a letter to SSDI to get this fixed. I should be getting over $2,100 a month in SSDI payment and if LTD is reinstated, that all goes to them and I'll get $4,000 a month in LTD only. SSA must have the most incompetent employees I've EVER seen.

However, it's hard for me to understand how non-vet, ex-convict, Drug addict, and prostitute soliciting acquaintance of mine collects SS for sciatica. It's also hard for me to understand how my neighbor, a non-vet drug addict, also collects ssi (since he was 44 years old, 'cause he is supposedly crazy - not too crazy to buy drugs with his SS check). I do not do drugs, worked hard till the age of 50 when I became disabled, and would only drink at home in an attempt to combat stress. I'm not an ex-con, nor solicit prostitution or use illegal drugs. The money taken from me by SS is been used to provide money for illegal activities, which I find bothersome. I will continue to file for SS as often as I can regardless of the results and make sure to expose SS to the media at every chance I get.

How did they come up with $6841 I asked hundreds of times over about two and 1/2 more years? No one could answer. It was just a stall and I was fed up. Finally, they referred me to a technician on the staff who directed me to 42 U.S.C. 404 (b). When I read that statute I was really livid. As stated above it says that my deduction for STRS should be that which was earned by me at the time of applying. Since I was still working at the time I was applying in 2008, my earnings exceeded slightly the cap on my receiving any pension benefits from STRS. That is right.

My benefit amount from STRS was $0.00. Even if we use the SSA method of deducting $300 per month from my benefits, they continued their underpayment of benefits until 2014 at a calculated payback of some $15,000 on an overpayment that was alleged at $6841. That means that SSA owed me more than $9,000 in underpayment under their own formula. But the law says minus half of the eligible benefits at the time, that was $0.00, the underpayment using that value instead of $300 in the formula come to more than $27,000. I was calling them crooks and incompetent over the telephone. They banned me from all of their offices. No matter, they are still crooked and incompetent. Now, I have to file a lawsuit after taking the matter to all levels of appeal and it being found by their own judges that I am in no way at fault.

Yesterday, Feb. 12, 2015, I tried calling the (800) 772.1213 number. The wait time was over 30 minutes so I asked for a callback. I was unavailable when they returned the call. I tried again in the later afternoon. Again, over a 30 minute wait so I asked for a callback. I did receive a callback in approximately 30 minutes. I explained that I wanted to make an appointment at the local Littleton, Colorado office. The woman representative, who was nice, could not get my information to "take" in their system even though I am obviously in their system.

After 22 minutes....according to my cell phone clock...she said she couldn't make it work and said she'd have to go to tech support. She asked if she could put me on hold. I said "Yes" but explained that I was going into a meeting but would have my phone on during the meeting. I asked if she could call me back and she said that wasn't possible. I had my speaker on during the meeting listening to the, in my opinion, terrible music. When my cell phone clock read 56.32 minutes....I finally gave up. So, now I have two problems: (1) trying to make an appointment to talk to someone face to face and (2) trying to find out why our benefits were cut.

So, when the social security disability office paid my back pay, it went to the credit union that had closed my accounts and repossessed my cars. The credit union was not willing to give me the social security money that was sent to them for the back pay. I fought the credit union but had no other option but to move on. After a short period of time and receiving monthly benefits for my disability and benefits for my two dependent children under 18, I was able to get the surgeries and rehab needed to get back on my feet literally and get back to work.

I called the toll free number on my packet that instructed me to report that I had returned to work after 6 months. I was told that there was some kind of 3 month extension and to call back in 3 months. I called back in June because my company was being sold to another company and wanted to get verification if the trial work period started over. I was told the trial period did not start over. I called the ssda back in September to report that I was still working for the same company. The man took all my work information and then told me there was a 2 month grace period for the ssda to reconsider my benefits.

I received a letter in the mail from the ssda saying that we have recently received information that you have returned to work and there was a report showing works dates and salary. The information was wrong. It showed that I had went to work in March instead of January and the hourly amount was lower than what I reported on my phone call in September. I made the corrections and sent it back to the address provided. I did not receive a corrected sheet back. I continued to receive benefits for about 6 months before receiving a letter saying my benefits were being reduced. Then my benefits were reduced.

My benefits were reduced again when my daughter turned 18. I was told by the ssda that I could receive an extension if she was enrolled in college full time. She was at the time and I sent in to the ssda copies of her registration and schedule. I did not however receive benefits for her. I continued to receive benefits on me and my son. I contacted my case worker when I changed jobs and lost jobs.

I filed my yearly taxes including the ss benefits and some years had to pay in to cover the ss benefits. I also contributed to ss during my employment. In 2011 I received my first letter from Kansas alleging that I was overpaid and was going to have to pay back some the ss benefits. I called my case worker. She did not know what I was talking about and did not have those letters in her records and asked me to send them to her. I did.

She contacted me stating the letters were incorrect and that I was in fact still eligible for benefits. I believed her when she said it was a mistake and moved on. Until I received another letter stating that I owed more money. In tears and stressed to the max I called the number on the letter and no one was willing to explain to me what was going on. So, I called my local case worker again. Again, was told that was a mistake and that I was still eligible for benefits. I could not take the chance that no one in ssda cared one bit for my well being or what was right.

I begged her to stop sending me benefits. I cried and pleaded with her that I could not pay that money back and should not have to. I told her about all the letters I was getting from Delaware and Kansas that did not say the same thing and then she was saying something different from both all the letters. I told her I could not handle the stress and was actually getting sick from the stress of possibly having to pay back thousands of dollars. She finally agreed to stop the benefits. She said she would put them on hold in case I changed my mind!

So now, I continue to get letters telling me that I was not eligible for benefits since 2008 but my case worker telling me in 2011 that I am still eligible for benefits. I stopped using any and all benefits immediately. Unfortunately for me it was too late. I had to borrow money from family to pay bills and hire an attorney to fight the overpayment case against me. I was nervous when my attorney said that the judge should like me because I was Republican. Unfortunately, the judge did not like my attorney because he was a democrat. The judge did not even look at me or give me the opportunity to tell what actually happened.

I have several letters from over several years from different ssda offices in Delaware, Kansas, and Virginia. None of them say the same thing. The judge decided I owed all the money back. I appealed of course and the appeals court found in my case that the judge’s decision was not supported by substantial evidence and there is an error of law. The appeals court reduced the amount for me to pay back in half still leaving me a balance to pay of 24,109.40. That was October 3, 2014.

I appealed that decision and requested an appearance in person to add exhibits and additional information the judge would not hear. I was denied and appealed that again. I have to date received three more letters from Kansas. Two in December 2014 telling me to pay the ssa 52,304.90 by 1.3.2015. Then another letter in January telling me to pay 52,304.90 by 2.3.2015. I called the ssa at 800.772.1213 to get information on how and where to file a complaint against the ssda.

I was on hold for one hour and four minutes. The lady who answered my call, after getting my information, started saying that I owed the money. When I told her that I had a letter saying I didn’t, she just said that they didn’t have that letter and I needed to pay the money. I told her this is why I wanted to file a complaint. I have received several letters over the past years from different offices all contradicting each other and when I call no one knows what the other office is doing and expects me to know what is going on based on their letter alone.

She told me I could not file a complaint because they did not have the letter from the Virginia office overturning the letters from the Kansas office. I am so upset. She told me that I needed to take that letter to my local ss office. But as of now I needed to pay 52,304.90. Then hung up on me when I asked to speak to a supervisor. Someone PLEASE HELP!

This time upon visiting the social security office, she was Very hopeful that they might be able to tell her at least something as to what is going on or help in some sort of manner. But after a 3 hour standing wait, she is given a pamphlet with numbers to call that she had already gotten online and told to call them. In reply, she states that she has already done that and called every number on there with absolutely no help. They then recommend filing a police report. She then explains that she has already done that. Then they tell her to just, "Get a lawyer", which is something we cannot afford. We've been around this same loop over and over again and this is something I can NOT understand!

If there is a problem with her Social, whether it be identity theft or not (We're assuming identity theft as her medical records, among many others, were stolen from the University of Utah many years prior), WHY can't they HELP!?! It's a social security problem and they're the social security office!! She is the victim here, her life has been virtually ruined in her mind as she badly wants to work to help our financial issues. Can they not see that a social security number is being used by more than one person??? When there is a Social being used by more than one person, why do they not pursue the problem?

She feels like she is being treated like a criminal when in reality she is the victim! The social security office is completely incompetent and needs to fix this. I feel that she needs not only FULL resolution to this problem, which she is a victim of, but some serious compensation for all of those years she has been stuck at home wanting to work. Also, any advice on this would be GREATLY appreciated.

Secondly and most importantly, they changed the mailing address to Florida without a CONFIRMATION from Social Security. They had an "on hold" purchase for this debit card for a purchase from Microsoft for $59.99 when I called so I told them not to approve it and they said I had to let the charge go through then call back to dispute it. When I called back to dispute (as they requested) I was told that I shouldn't have been told that. The charge went through with them knowing the debit card was issued to someone else using my identity. On this same call (my second) they told me my claim was denied, they had done nothing wrong. When I asked how I could get my money back they said to contact the owners of the ATM machine used. When I said "Really!!" they said the police would get my deposit back.

A week later I received a pack of paperwork from them to fill out regarding fraud so I called and asked "If my claim was denied do I still need to send in this paperwork." I was told they cannot talk to me or answer any questions. I asked to speak to someone in their fraud department and after being put on hold, I was told they couldn't/wouldn't talk to me. This company has a contract to issue debit cards for our government and I think they need their feet held to the fire for documentation, policy and customer service. If a business owner has a complaint filed against them by the BBB or the Attorney General they sure better have some notes and documentation to back up their side of the issue so why shouldn't this business.

Anyways I called SSI and said I have full custody. She lives with me and has for all these years. How can they just have someone walk in and change something like that. The guy said there isn't anything he could do. I asked for fax number to send the worker my legal document in which I did stating I have full custody and the worker never got back to me so I called back next day and the guy hung up on me so rudely so I called right back and got the same man in which was so very rude and said there's nothing I can do to change it. I'm devastated by the system of the SSI. So now the money to take care of my daughter is going to an evil man that should not get a thing as he has never helped me to take care of her to this day. Sickening and apparently doesn't care now that it's his daughter that will be suffering without proper necessities for me to raise her. Terrible but that's the SSI system. Beware of this happening to you cause it can in a blink of a light.

I went to the local Field Office on November 7th, and the Case Worker I talked to did a print up, had a Case Manager/Office Manager sign it, and tell me that there's in fact an underpayment due to me, and that she had to give said form to my Case Worker, because it's she who can release those funds. She tells me that SSA had up to 30 days to pay it to me. I'm scared they're gonna screw me out of this money, as I get my December SSI Check this coming Monday.

In 2012 when I was going to attempt to do trial to work, I had the review. So-called friends adamant of me, not wanting a car, using my emotions to coerce in a retirement problems for me and not for them. I had a psychiatrist in Pasco county who was botoxed tell me that my benefits were going to continue. However he lied and social security gave me an over-payment over 10 grand.

I went to a woman administrative hearing judge who actually was using anything I say to get me. For instance, knew I had a P.O box so she told me two weeks for an answer. That was in November of 2013. Then decides she needs more information and has me see a psychiatrist December 23, 2013. I was told two weeks. I was running back and forth to the post office. The judge was trying to make me look postal. Well I called the toll free social security and they would tell me a month here. Then I would call again and a month here. July 3, 2014 I was given a denial. This judge ran me out of my savings. She left me broke. Also she misrepresented my character assuming I was on pot and cocaine. I guess she wanted me 400 pounds to be disabled. All fabricated lies. I knew lawyers on drugs so I do not know where she was coming from with these conclusions.

The last lawyer made copies of this paperwork did not take this case again and kept the paperwork. Talking of getting furniture delivered in Pasco county. In Pasco county I want no one having false information. A bunch of using people. Now I got a lawyer, the lawyer made a new claim. The adjudicator in Florida was also playing a role of complete control problems. I was given work history forms, functional forms, medical forms, medical disclosure forms. I filled all these forms in a timely manner, 10 days deadline. The adjudicator claims he never got the work history forms which is a great deal of forms.

I went to a small post office in Hudson. In fact the first time I mailed the forms the lady helped me fit them in the small envelope. Since I am living day to day. The second time I filled out these timely forms. I fit them in the small envelope alone. Then I got on the phone with the adjudicator, a letter was sent to me for additional information. He stated he never received any of the forms and wanted me to do them all over again, all of them. I told him I live day to day, he stated the deadline was tomorrow. Well I was not going to have the money that soon. I was ran out of my money. He lied. Then he goes to say he needed the functional reports. First he stated all of them and wanted me to fax all the paperwork which was many, many pages to him. Where was I going to get the money? He asked me about additional issues. I told him about getting a newspaper wrapper wrapped around my ankles running across the highway. Collar bone etc.

I have bipolar paperwork from NY. I have a lump on my head that the general dr knew about. There was chiropractic information. Trying to figure out where he received no information. He laughed when I lost my child and was blackballed and I told him it was not funny. I can make a decision at anytime. I told him to make a decision so he did it before thanksgiving. The due date was December 25 to get the denial. I think there is a cultural issue. Catholic and Jewish. I am guessing anti-Semitic. I owe a college loan, I have to pay them back, something is wrong. To continue an appeal is really a question about having rights to trial to work right, not to be used and controlled.

Now my attorney has sent me a letter that she can't handle this appeal due to a family emergency matter. Could this be why I need to get in Criminal Law just to see how corrupt the social security disability hearing judge could sign this approval. Go figure, it's time to take more medicine.

Well they started to investigate me and said he lives here when he in fact does not. He has his own residence and I have mine but does come when I need him so we can co-parent the children so we don't mess the kids up and the only way to keep everyone safe from harm. Me and the kids have been without an income now for seven months and still haven't got an answer what to do. Now I don't know, I have been trying everything and haven't got nowhere. I need answers and I need a lawyer but can't find anyone to take the case. Please any help would be great. Thanks so much.

After not hearing from her for a week, I then called again the following week to get more information. I was then put on hold while she was getting information from her supervisor. It was apparent that she never investigated my case at all. She finally got on the phone and told me that it was sent out and that it was nothing else she could do for me. So I spoke to her supervisor Ms. **, and she told me the same thing.

I am very disappointed with this office losing my most important documents. Now it is my problem and my headache having to deal with this. It's absolutely critical for me to get those documents back because I also have to change my driver's license and important other things. I'm very very concern someone has my passport or is using my passport. They need to investigate this matter further and not blow me off like it's not their problem. I really need to hear from this office to assure me that this matter will be handled.

My mom was a cancer victim and of course was denied the first time, but as my caseworker told me, READ why she was denied, it was no fault of SSA. It accurately told me my mother's DOCTOR did not submit the reports they requested. Once I found that out by reading the notice, I went and requested her records myself, filed my appeal and submitted the report myself as evidence. I had no issues, she was approved.

People over and over told me get a attorney. What for? The attorney does Nothing on your behalf unless you go to a hearing, then they appear to the judge, so why would I give him money for doing nothing? I have listened to so many stories sitting in their lobby, it was mind blowing! People getting SSI not reporting wages, or married and not telling, not paying bills and living for free, work under the table and sooooo much more. I wish Congress would really evaluate that program, seriously! And we wonder why our country has no money, go figure!

I am very fortunate to never have any issues with them. I know what they go through daily can't be too pleasant and I commend them for what they do! I know I could never do that work, I don't think I would have the patience to deal with our public who come in with their hand out because they're too lazy to work. Yes, I said lazy! Don't twist this up, there are some who need that SSI because maybe they never got the option to work, or maybe couldn't work. I know there are some that truly deserve it and in the same note, there are many who do not. I have read through several of these postings and I find it amazing that you worked but you're disabled? Seriously? And now you're mad that you're overpaid? That makes no sense at all!

My son's dad has not supported him or my daughter over the past 4 to 5 years or so. He doesn't call them or see them. My husband has been helping me with my children ever since. My husband is so stressed and me too. He is trying to adopt them now so that maybe they can draw off his account but that can take months or a year. What am I suppose to do in the meantime? I am a stay at home mom. I sometimes clean house and do hair on the side to help ends meet. It has been very stressful on me so bad that I had to go on nerve pills and I have anxiety issues the older I get. I think this is not far to my son and his family!