1. To help anyone trying to get their Social Security Disability Benefits as soon as possible.
2. To raise awareness of Hepatitis C through my own treatment experience, and the best resources I can find, and just plain telling people things I wish someone, including my doctors would have told me.
I have found the following links to be exceptionally helpful for assistance with medical expenses and even financial aid to those who qualify or just have an unexpected expense they need help with.
* Though most of this info can be found on the SSA site SSA.Gov, I am also still working on a more comprehensive guide to helping people with questions such as:
How do I qualify for Social Security Disability?
Is SSDI benefit amount dependent upon my household's total income?
And accurate information through research and personal experience these topics
- How to apply for Social Security benefits
- Denied Social Security
- Social Security Disability Tips
- Social Security Programs
- Social Security attorneys, including such facts as the State of Virginia Bar Association is the only one in the US to recognize Social Security Attorneys and what that means to you in your city and state.
- Protective Filing Date
- RFC
If you are not sure your condition qualifies you for disability, please check out the list of hepatic conditions
In the meantime:Please see the full site The American Liver Foundation .
The PDF attachment I received contained many resources. The most generally helpful for financial assistance was "Modest Needs", explained below in an excerpt from the document I received. The American Liver Foundation is dedicated to getting the word out about this epidemic which is silently reaching catastrophic proportions in the US and abroad.
What kinds of assistance can Modest Needs offer me/my family?
Modest Needs offers three main types of grants: Self-Sufficiency Grants, Back-to-Work Grants, and Independent Living Grants. The grants we offer at Modest Needs come with no strings attached and do not ever have to be repaid.To learn more about the types of grants we offer at Modest Needs, please read about our Grant Types and Eligibility Requirements.
Does Modest Needs charge a fee to apply for assistance?
No. For about a year, from October 2009 to October 2010, we did charge a fully-refundable $7.50 application fee as a means of controlling against fraudulent applications for assistance. However, we determined that this fee did not control against fraud as well as the other safeguards we had in place, resulted in enormous bookkeeping headaches, and caused legitimate applicants to question Modest Needs' own legitimacy.For these reasons, we discontinued our application fee in October 2010. Going forward, Modest Needs will never again charge an application fee of any kind to our applicants, ever.
