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Healthcare Confusion

Name: Karen
Caregiver Relationship: Spouse
Living Arrangements: Share Home
Primary Illness: Parkinson's Disease

We have been applying for SSI for over a year now and were denied because someone input the right name and wrong SSI number. Can't fight the system, can only "appeal". Now my husband has become my dependant and I am angry at a system that doesn’t not give disability to legitimately disabled persons.

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