# Stop The Presses!!!! Great News!!!! I Got My SSDI!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 23, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298 "2011-02-23T01:12:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/41 "2011-02-23T13:38:27Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > Just to head off any trouble down the road… find out if you will owe taxes on the money you will receive, before you spend it. And congrats on actually getting it! Yes. Do get help with the taxes on your lump sum payment. Some people make the mistake of considering the lump sum payment as income for the current year. I believe the proper way to do it is to break it into the years that you _would_ have received it if it weren’t for the fact that the SSA employs spastic monkeys with rubber **NO!!!** stamps nailed to their hands as disability determination evaluators. For example, say your date of entitlement is 1/01/2008, and you finally get approved on 1/1/2011. Say your reimbursement check is $30,000, and you receive it 3/1/2011. Instead of claiming the entire $30,000 as income for 2011, you can break it down into what you would have received in 2008, 2009, 2010, (and 2 months in 2011)–something around $10,000 in each of those years. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/42 "2011-02-23T14:00:23Z")
Yay!!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/43 "2011-02-23T14:05:15Z")
Super duper great news **Quasi**! Glad to hear it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/44 "2011-02-23T14:31:09Z")
Huzzah! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/45 "2011-02-23T15:16:12Z")
I hope and pray that this helps your situation. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/46 "2011-02-23T15:38:16Z")
Party time! First time I’ve thought, “Hmm, we need a ‘like’ button.” Probably the last time too. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/47 "2011-02-23T16:47:21Z")
Good for you, \*\*Quasi \*\*and **D**. Glad to hear that you didn’t give up and kept on. And yay to your helpers, too! I love this place. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/48 "2011-02-23T16:54:05Z")
Three cheers! Hope that you can take a few pennies, if there’s any “extra” and come visit - a little celebratory trip to the coast before it’s too hot. (Seriously, I’ll be glad to help out with a good hotel rate if you were serious about wanting to visit Savannah anytime soon…) ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/49 "2011-02-23T17:23:57Z")
Hooray! Glad to hear the real life help helped! ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/50 "2011-02-23T18:20:26Z")
Excellent, Q! It’s heartening to know that keeping up the good fight worked out! ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/51 "2011-02-23T21:33:08Z")
Great news, **Quasi**! I know that the whole SSDI mess was weighing heavily on you and D. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/52 "2011-02-23T22:29:56Z")
Such great news, **Quasi**! I’m sure it sucks to have to go through this at all, but this should give you guys a little breathing room, huh? ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/53 "2011-02-23T23:41:29Z")
Very happy that it is finally working out for y’all. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/54 "2011-02-24T00:44:43Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Three cheers! Hope that you can take a few pennies, if there’s any “extra” and come visit - a little celebratory trip to the coast before it’s too hot. (Seriously, I’ll be glad to help out with a good hotel rate if you were serious about wanting to visit Savannah anytime soon…) OMG!!! Yes, D and I wanted to come down for the music festival in April, **Lacunae Matata** , but it all depends on when the SSDI check comes through, same with our trip home to Germany. SSDI says 30-60 days…☹ Neither one of us has had a decent break _together_ (family invited us to stay in their condo in Panama City Beach a couple years ago- free) since we remarried.) This would be a wonderful thing for both of us and thank you very much for the offer! I wanted to pm/e-mail you, but you don’t have that function enabled, so I hope that letting you know this way is okay. **Dopers**! God love’em! Thanks so much **LM** , once again! Quasi ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/55 "2011-02-24T00:45:17Z")
Cool that things will be easier for D and you, one less source of worry. Now you get to enjoy life with your sweetie --and take good care of yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/56 "2011-02-24T03:01:32Z")
I am convinced that the disability program just does this because they hope you’ll kick the bucket before they have to start paying. :rolleyes: If private insurance had a 3 year waiting period, they’d be squashed like a bug in a rug. Congratulations, though. Finally! ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/57 "2011-02-24T03:07:09Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > This would be a wonderful thing for both of us and thank you very much for the offer! I wanted to pm/e-mail you, but you don’t have that function enabled, so I hope that letting you know this way is okay. > > **Dopers**! God love’em! > > Thanks so much **LM** , once again! > > Quasi Oops! I’ve changed my settings to receive private messages - send away! (And you are so very welcome. It will be my pleasure!) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/58 "2011-02-24T03:37:48Z")
Sorry, **LM** , but I keep getting a failure Daemon notice telling me my e-mail cannot be delivered to you. ☹ This is what I wrote: Hi, **LM**! I just wanted to touch base and thank you for your very kind offer! We were thinking of an arrival date of 3.25 and leaving 3.28 if that would be okay? However it works out, Dondra and I are looking forward to meeting our very kind Doper friend, and we’re very grateful. Thanks so much! Bill ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/59 "2011-02-24T04:48:06Z")
Congrats, Quasi! I have a good friend who is a disability lawyer…and a homeless friend who is going through the application process. I have an idea of what you’ve been going through, and can only imagine how great it feels to get through it. I hope life gets a little bit easier now. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298/60 "2011-02-24T08:00:02Z")
Q, check your PMs. I can definitely help with the room, if it meets your approval. Finally fixed my PM capability, so if you can send me your given name, e-mail, and telephone #, I can book the room at a pretty decent rate. If you’d prefer a different location, I can send you a link to make your own reservation at a pretty good rate… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-presses-great-news-i-got-my-ssdi/572298.md?page=4)