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My husband is on SSA disability and was turned down twice as well, once immediately (which I have heard is an automatic) and the second time, we documented everything even more thoroughly and were shocked to find that he was turned down again. As it turned out, his paperwork was lost several times over, and his entire case was never really read thoroughly by any one person at any one time. He received a date for his hearing, and magically, a week before his hearing, we received a phone call from a legal rep for SSA who told us that his paperwork was reviewed in its entirety for the very first time, and it was decided that he qualified for SSA. We had hired a lawyer to represent us and had met a few times and gone through much paperwork with that process, also. SSA lost much of our paperwork, my daughter's original birth certificate, and reps from there often dealt with this as if it was somehow funny, very seldom apologetic. We just recently had his case reviewed again, and he passed through fine, with much paperwork again filled out.