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Kathie J Creveling wrote: > My family is after me all the time any more about the amount of > energy I am using to try to keep going as much as I do..... They > are simply concerned at the level of exhaustion at the end of a > work day. With a chronic, gradually worsening condition it's difficult to know just when to apply. With PD it is somewhat simplified by the fact of "Parkinsonian syndrome" being on a Social Security listing of conditions that are regarded as serious enough to justify qualifying, provided that there is medical evidence of severity to the level indicated in the listing. > I care for seven children in the home (infants to pre-school age). It > is all I have ever done. Try to find out what your payments would be. If you were 65 now, would you qualify for retirement benefits? At what rate? (As I understand it, SSDI is, stated loosely, retirement benefits paid as of a disability date which is prior to regular retirement age.) Also, if you are married, would receiving SSDI payments affect your husband's Social Security retirement rate? Best of luck, Phil Tompkins Hoboken NJ age 62/dx 1990