Sounds like America has copied the English system & "improved" it. I once applied for housing benefit (relief from local taxation for the unemployed, which I was then) - a 23-page form, including an irrelevant demand for my grandparent's birthplace ! Quoting rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]>: > Good grief!! It was hard enough getting the reduced SSD $144/mo. benefit on > the 2nd try and I remember it really upsetting me at the time. It would be > difficult jumping throughall these hoops if you were well. > > After my first try they told me I could do "data entry" rather than > wordprocessing, which is actually harder. I typed up a paper explaing WHAT > RAYILYN BROWN CANNOT DOO with all the errors on it. I also cried when I had > my meeting and luckily got a sympathetic person. Beleive me this "cry" was > not phoney - this pr oocooess reduces you to teears.and I don't cry easily. > > Ray > > Rayilyn Brown > Board Member AZNPF > Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation > [log in to unmask] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nina P. Brown" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:37 AM > Subject: Re: Social Security > > > snip > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn