Even when I think the circumstances, facts, opinions, and proof merit granting disability to a person under SSDIB, SSI, LTD, or Workers’ Compensation, I am always alarmed when people say they "have earned" the right to disability.
A word of advice to anyone struggling with physical or mental health conditions who are making it difficult to work: Find employment or support yourself. Never tell the doctor, judge, or anyone that you “earned” disability.
You don't “earn” it. You are forced into it by circumstances beyond your control. Even if it’s true – that you “earned” it (if that is your attitude) – it is wrong-headed thinking and it communicates the wrong message.
Loren M. Lambert © January 12, 2014
A word of advice to anyone struggling with physical or mental health conditions who are making it difficult to work: Find employment or support yourself. Never tell the doctor, judge, or anyone that you “earned” disability.
You don't “earn” it. You are forced into it by circumstances beyond your control. Even if it’s true – that you “earned” it (if that is your attitude) – it is wrong-headed thinking and it communicates the wrong message.
Loren M. Lambert © January 12, 2014
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