• Popular Pages 2021
• New Pages 2021
• Sample Letter to Transfer Apartments (Private Landlord)
• How to Get Free Home Modifications
• How to Be Poor in America
• February/March 2020
• February 2020
• How to Appeal Social Security Disability (and how to GREATLY increase your chances of getting approved)
• New Pages: Disability Accommodation Letters in Housing
• How to Get Food Without Leaving Your House
• How To Be Judgement Proof
• How to Work Without (Too Much) Trouble
• How Peony Appealed (and won!) Her Long Term Disability
• How to Fill Out a Work History Report (form SSA-3369-BK)
• January/February 2020
• January 2020
• November/December 2019
• October/November 2019
• New Pages About Disability Accommodations in Housing
• How To Test Your Memory
• SEPTEMBER 2019
• Sample Letter: Exception to Porting Policies
• Can You Do “X”?
• AUGUST 2019
• 26 Great Facebook Groups (Plus a Few Other Things)
• Shit Doctors Say
• How to Win Long Term Disability for ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• How to Answer Questions at Your Disability Hearing
• Dr. Fein’s Medical Summary for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Lyme Disease
• How Sweet Pea Got Approved in Four Months
• How to Complete a Disability Update Report (SSA-455-BK)
• Roselyn Uses the Magic Words
• What Doctor Was the Most Helpful for Documenting Your Disability?
• How a Lawyer Can (and can’t) Help Your Disability Application
• How to Get Medical Tests to Help Your Disability Application
• How to Get the World to Come to You
• How to Get a CPET (maybe)
• How to Have a Screening Interview for a State Home Aide Program
• How to Get Neuropsychological Testing While Applying for Disability
• Dahlia Proves She’s Not Mental
• How to Apply for Income Based Repayment
• How to Escape Private Student Loans
• Creative Ways to Get Section 8 (Even When the Wait Lists are Closed)
• Tricky Questions When You First Apply for Disability
• How to Survive Financially While Applying for Disability
• How to Get a Faster Disability Decision
• How to Be Prepared for Your Social Security Disability Review
• How to Answer 21 Tricky Disability Questions
• How to Survive on SSI
• How to Complete a Continuing Disability Review Report (SSA-454-BK)
• How to Find Community While on Disability
• How to Get a Doctor to Come to Your House
• How to Be a Superhero (10 Steps To Improve a New Disability Application)
• How to Get Copies of Your Psych Records
• How to Document Mental Health for a Disability Application
• How to Use the Social Security Ruling for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (SSR 14-1p)
• Social Security Says, “A Medical Decision Has Been Made”. What Does this Mean?
• How Daisy Won Her Disability Case with a Doctor’s Letter
• How to Find Housing that is Both Cheap & Good
• How to Get Free Medical Equipment
• How to Check Your Date Last Insured
• How to Apply for a Disability Home Aide
• How to Protect Yourself While Applying for Long Term Disability
• How Marigold Got Approved in Six Months
• How to Have Doctor Visits that Create Accurate Records
• Zinnia’s Super Great Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Disability Letter
• How to Tell What’s Wrong with You
• The Sleepy Girl Guide to Lyme Disease & Social Security Disability
• 25 Different Ways to Apply for Disability
• How To Get a Free Phone That Doesn’t Suck
• How I Got Approved for IHSS Protective Supervision
• 15 Secrets for People in Medicaid Home Care Programs
• Ten Secrets for People with Live-In Caregivers
• How To Describe Your Activities When You Apply for Disability
• How Connie Got Approved for Lyme Disease (30 times!)
• How to Answer the Question: “Why Can’t You Work?”
• How to Avoid Getting Screwed Over if Your Employer Offers Disability Insurance
• How to #Resist Without Using All Your Spoons
• The Story of My Disability Hearing
• Iris Gets Tested
• How To Get Help from Your Congressperson
• How I Got Approved for Disability by Ignoring Social Security
• How to Escape Medicare Fees
• How to Make Magic (on SSI)
• How Patty’s Lawyer Never Told Her What She Needed to Know
• How to Calculate (and sometimes lower) Rent in HUD Housing
• What Will I Qualify for? SSI? SSDI? Both? Neither?
• How to Follow the SSI Food Regs
• What Should I Do? Apply for Disability? Reduce Hours? Change Jobs? Wait and See?
• How To Make a Medical Outline to Help Your Disability Case
• Rosemary Makes a Medical Outline
• How to Fill Out an Adult Function Report / Activities of Daily Living (SSA-3373-BK)
• How Come Someone at Social Security is Telling Me This Weird Thing?
• How Colleen Used the ICC to Finally Get a Diagnosis that Fit
• How To Prep for the CE
• How to Escape the Information Black Hole
• Be Like Bluebell
• How to Tell If There are Secret Medical Records You Have Not Seen
• How to Fill Out an Adult Function Report Third Party Form (SSA-3380-BK)
• If There is Any Chance You Will Ever Apply for Disability…
• How to Wheel Around an Airport
• How Come My Disability Check is So Low?
• How Can I Get Approved for Disability the First Time I Apply?
• How To Get Your Doctor to Fill Out Disability Paperwork
• How I Got Approved for Disability for Fibromyalgia
• How and Where to Find a Good Disability Lawyer
• How to Handle an SSI Interview
• Tricky Questions After You Apply for Disability (First Six Months)
• How Jasmine Got Approved in Six Months
• How Wonderful and Horrible Ticket to Work Can Be
• How to Work with Your Doctor to Get Great Disability Documentation
• How Talking to Your Doctor Can Help (or hurt) Your Disability Case
• Tricky Questions at the Doctor’s Office
• How to Go to the Doctor Without Regret
• How I Got Approved For Disability Through Clinical Observations
• How to Keep a Symptom Diary
• How to Prepare for Your Disability Hearing
• July 2019
• Sample Letters to Congressperson
• How and Where to Apply for Social Security Disability
• Zinnia Uses the Social Security Ruling for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• How to Avoid Penalties from Retirement Plan Early Withdrawals
• How to Decide Between Appeals Council and New Application
• How to Improve Your Chances at Appeals Council
• Tips for Starting a New Application After a Hearing
• What Do I Do If My Doctor is Not an Acceptable Medical Source?
• Which Acceptable Medical Source Rules Apply to Me?
• Acceptable Medical Source Rules for Continuing Disability Reviews
• How to Submit Records for Hearing Appeals
• How to Submit Records for “Request for Reconsideration”
• How to Use the Blue Book to Get Approved for Disability
• How To Get Help from The Amazing SOAR Program
• How to Find Your Secret Code (Disability Update Report)
• Twelve Important Things to Do After You Get on an Affordable Housing Wait List
• How to Go to the Doctor Without Insurance
• How To Tell If You Are Seeing Mr. Right
• How to Get Tax Breaks for Disabilities
• How to Handle a Denial from a Judge
• How to Find Super Cheap Housing WITHOUT a Housing Voucher
• How to Troubleshoot (Short Form CDR)
• How I Got Approved for Disability Using Compassionate Allowance Rules
• What medical test was the most helpful for your disability approval?
• How to Tell What You’re On
• HUD Map Super Special Secret Trick
• June 2019
• How To Figure Out Where Your Disability Application is & What in the *@!# is Going On
• Sample Email for Writing Affordable Housing Buildings
• Pansy Finds a New Home Through USDA
• Five Different Types of Affordable Housing Buildings
• Am I Eligible to Apply for Disability?
• How to Apply for Disability When You are Told You Can’t Apply for Disability
• Section 8 Guide for the Disabled and Plucky
• How To Follow the SSI Living Arrangement Regs
• How to Stay Out of Hot Water with SSI
• How To Explain Why You Haven’t Been to the Doctor
• Sample Disability Letters from Friends, Family, Employers & Doctors
• How To Improve Your Disability Request for Reconsideration
• Potential Dangers of Exercise or Activity for ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• 21 Sample Doctor Letters for Disability
• How to Submit Documents for Initial Applications
• Applying for Disability with Lyme Disease: What Diagnosis Helped You Get Approved?
• How Your Congressperson Can (and Can’t) Help Your Disability Case
• 24 Magic Sentences That Can Change a “No” to a “Yes”
• Sunflower Goes on a Trip
• What Questions Do They Ask at a Social Security Interview?
• How to Have a Good, Helpful, Pleasant, Reasonably Successful Phone Call With a Social Service Agency
• How to Solve Your Social Security Problems
• Never Take No for an Answer Over the Phone
• How to Eliminate Share-of-Cost, Spend Downs, and Patient Pay (Medicaid & Medi-cal)
• Safe Ways to Save or Spend Money While on SSI
• How Will Income Affect My SSI Check?
• How a Doctor With a Good Heart Can Help a Patient Who is Applying for Disability (If She Wants To)
• “I Applied for Medicaid and Something Went Wrong”
• Can I Get Medicaid if I’m Married?
• How to Get Medicaid While Applying for Disability
• How to Avoid Getting a Representative Payee
• How Medical Equipment Can (and can’t) Help Your Disability Application
• How to Get an Electric Wheelchair or Scooter Through Insurance
• Sample Insurance Policy for Electric Mobility Scooter
• Sample Insurance Policy for Electric Wheelchair or Mobility Scooter
• How to Get Medical Equipment Covered Through Insurance
• How Do I Know If It Is Time to Apply for Disability?
• How Including Mental Health Can Help Your Disability Application (Sometimes!)
• Overview of Social Security Ruling for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (SSR 14-1p)
• What is My Doctor Writing About Me?
• Lilac Gets a Mobility Scooter
• Everything No One Ever Tells You About Living on Social Security Disability
• The Flower Girls Get Approved for Disability
• Peony Proves She Cannot Work
• Lavender Solves the Problem of the CPET
• The Pros and Cons of a One-Day CPET
• The Pros and Cons of a Two-Day CPET
• Hibiscus Applies for Disability While in School
• Carnation’s Doctor Takes Terrible Notes
• How To Eliminate a Social Security Overpayment (or at least try to!)
• Disability for Lymies
• Earning Income Without Working
• “How I Get By On SSI”
• How to Decide: Agency Care or Self-Directed Care
• How Do I Prove I Am Disabled When I Have Chronic Lyme Disease?
• How Come My Lab Tests All Say Nothing is Wrong?
• How Many Medical Tests Do I Need?
• Amaryllis Takes a Cognitive Test
• Iris Takes a Cognitive Test
• Iris Takes a Tilt Table Test
• How Did You Get Approved for Disability? (Survey Results)
• What Documents Helped Your Disability Application the Most?
• What is the One Thing You Know Now that You Wish You Knew Then?
• Tulip Gets a Great Doctor’s Letter
• How I Got a Home Aide for Lyme Disease
• How to Get Approved for Lyme Disease Without Getting Approved for Lyme Disease
• Dahlia Finds a Surprise in Her Medical Records
• What Happens if I Don’t Read All My Medical Records?
• How to Go to the Dentist When You Can’t Afford to Go to the Dentist
• How to Apply for Disability While Working
• Heather Creates a Paper Trail
• “A Medicaid Worker Told Me I Cannot Get Medicaid”
• How Pansy Got on Medicaid By Being Smart, Scrappy & Persistent
• Housing Tips For Spoonies
• How to Use the HUD Map to Find Affordable Housing
• How to Find a Real Nice Real Cheap Place to Live Through HUD
• How Does Working Affect My Disability Check?
• How Work Incentives Work
• How to Handle Disability Reviews While Working
• How to Use Workplace Records to Help Your Disability Case
• The Sleepy Girl ME Video Festival Selection Committee
• Camellia Finds A New Home with Section 8
• What’s a Spoonie?
• How I Cut My Medical Bills By 80%
• Poppy Applies for Disability While in School
• How Lotus Got a GREAT Doctor’s Letter for Lyme Disease
• How I Got Approved for Disability for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• How I Got Approved for Disability with Lyme Disease
• Cherry Blossom Finds Secret Medical Records
• Happy Lyme’s Lymes Lime Limes Lyme Disease Awareness Month
• Buttercup Makes the Best Disability Application Ever Seen
• How to Have a Great, Disabled Life
• How Dahlia Got a CPET
• How to Get Tested for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Iris Takes a CPET
• Tricky Questions You May be Asked During Reconsideration
• Tricky Questions You May Be Asked During Your Appeal
• Tricky Questions You May Be Asked in the First Six Months
• Special Notes for People Who Are Self-Employed
• How Peony Won Her Disability Case Despite “Normal” Test Results
• How to Collect Your Records through Social Security
• How to Collect Your Records Your Own Damn Self
• How to Collect Your Records Through Your Lawyer
• How to Turn Water Into Wine
• What Medical Tests Should I Get While Applying for Disability for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
• How to Get Approved Using Medical Signs
• How Belladonna Turned Water into Wine
• My Moment in the Sun
• Authors & Artists
• How to Get Extra Credit
• “How I Escaped My Student Loans”
• How to Escape Tax Problems from Student Loan Discharges
• How I Won My Social Security Overpayment Case
• How to be Part of the #MEAction
• Is My Doctor an Acceptable Medical Source for Social Security? (After March 27, 2017)
• Is My Doctor an Acceptable Medical Source for Social Security (Before March 27, 2017)
• How to Get Your Medical Records Without Paying an Arm and a Leg
• How to Please the Social Security Gods
• How Important is it that I Read All These SSI Rules?
• How to Apply for SSI Without Falling into Quicksand
• How to Go Back in Time
• How Do I Know if My Medical Evidence is “Good Enough”?
• How to Paint a Picture
• Quick-Step Guide to Improving Your Disability Ap
• How to Tell If Your Medical Evidence is “Good Enough”
• How Well Can You Function? (aka the key to winning EVERY disability claim)
• How a Bunch of Different People Got a Bunch of Different Meds Real Cheap
• How to Check Your File – Appeals
• How to Check Your File – Reconsiderations
• How to Fill Out Forms and Answer Questions for Social Security Disability
• How to Collect All Your Medical Records (Keyword: All)
• How Aster Figured Out How Much Actual Benefits He Would Actually Get
• Azalea and Willow Get Help While Applying for Disability
• How to Avoid Scary Phone Calls
• How to Get Medical Equipment
• What Happens if I Don’t Pay Debt?
• How To Protect Your Social Security Check
• How to Respond to Debt Collectors
• Who Can Take My Social Security Check?
• How Great Is It to Have Lyme Disease
• How to Make Life a Little Easier
• How to Start Applying for Social Security Disability
• How to Kill Your Social Security Application
• 72 Ways to Greatly, Greatly (Greatly!) Improve Your Social Security Disability Case
• How to Experience Technical Difficulties
• How to Get Denied Without Getting Denied
• How Jasmine Got Approved Despite “Normal” Test Results
• How Violet Got More Function Forms than Anybody Ever
• Ten Common Reasons SSI Might be Denied or Stopped
• Twelve Common Reasons an SSDI Check May Be Lowered or Cut Off
• Ten Common Reasons SSI Might Be Low
• Lilac Gets Approved for Dependent Benefits
• About the Artist
• “I’m Applying for Disability. What Other Help Can I Get?”
• How to Write the Perfect Ad to Find a Quiet, Creative, Like-Minded, Groovy, Nice Housemate or Caregiver
• How to Establish a Diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• How to Get a Great Disability Letter from Your Doctor
• The Flower Girls
• Everything No One Ever Tells You After You Get Approved for Disability
• Everything I Learned About Section 8 That I Wish I Knew Beforehand
• How to Get Enough Food Stamps to Actually Eat
• How Much Rent to Pay on SSI