So, after 10 1/2 years of being sick with Crohn's Disease, literally countless surgeries, 4 years of chronic kidney stones (a new stone every 2 - 3 weeks), and now more than 6 months since applying for Railroad Disability, I was supposed to find out "by the 20th" if my claim for Disability was approved, and in typical bureaucratic fashion I haven't heard anything.
I call month after month and am always told "you will hear something by 'the middle' of next month...", and I call and get the same thing month after month.
Today I called AGAIN and this month was told something different.
I thought Finally, an answer! well, no - not exactly, I haven't been turned down (yet) - this month I was told I should hear something "by the middle of February"....!!?!?!?!
Now, if I don't hear anything until "mid-February" then it will be more than EIGHT MONTHS since I applied.
HOW THE F*@K is anyone supposed to LIVE with no income for MORE THAN EIGHT MONTHS!?!?!
Mortgage Companies don't care you can't work, utility companies don't care, no one cares when you owe them money each month, yet the RRB continues to drag me along, month after month, with the promise that I will "hear something by the middle of next month" and I NEVER hear ANYTHING other than "you'll hear next month" over and over again.
I swear, if I have waited 8 months and find out in February that I have been denied, I will kill myself - because I can't continue on the way I've been forced to and I'm sure any appeals process I would attempt would take YEARS, not months, and by that time I'll have lost my home and sold all my possessions and will be living on the street.
I won't live on the street. I will kill myself first.
Thank you, and Merry Christmas, Railroad Retirement for f*@ing up my holiday more than it already was....
I'm glad I worked for so long and have gotten nothing back from you after all the years I've paid into the system, and because I work for the railroad I CAN'T collect any Social Security - so you've got me by the short hairs. I'm glad I found out 4 days before Christmas (when I was promised I'd get a decision by now) that I have to wait TWO MORE MONTHS before I hear your next line of bullshit.
Anything other than "You're approved" and "here's the 20 months of back-pay we owe you" and I WILL kill myself.
The person formerly known as RobMac
(1970~2007)
