This is what mismanagement looks like.
Then there’s my son. Twice SSA said they had overpaid him thousands of dollars and demanded repayment. They were wrong. If it weren’t for me, he would have been screwed. In each case, it took me months to resolve the problem. Coincidentally, just today I sent an email to request a chance to comment at a government meeting about mental health issues. I’m going to bring this up.
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I have to write up a statement and send it in before September 29 if I want to read it at the meeting. I have three minutes. It will be tough to condense my thoughts in that amount of time!
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Ah SS. I actually was overpaid by SS one year because I worked too many hours as a SS recipient. So…I repaid them. (Remember now…I paid taxes in those wrongly disbursed SS earnings when they were given to me). I then got a love note that said I hadn’t paid the amount back. That took a while to resolve. But I had both a letter from SS saying they had received my payment…as well as my record showing it had been sent. Well…fast forward and I get a love note telling me that actually didn’t over pay me…and they had deposited the money back into my bank account. They were wrong and I tried to explain. They didn’t care.
I got to pay taxes on that money….again…when they put it back in my account.
Ugh, it’s just mind-boggling. I hate thinking that I will have to deal with these people the rest of my life for myself and my son!
When my son was first trying to qualify for SSI, he needed a psychological evaluation. It was the middle of winter and we’d just had a big snowstorm. Getting downtown, finding a parking place, and navigating over large mounds of snow was challenging. When we got up to the guy’s office, it was deserted. Fortunately, I had a phone number for him and called. “Oh, Social Security canceled the appointment!” What?!? Nobody told me! A few days letter, I got the notice of cancellation. The postmark was the day of the appointment. At least the good news was that SSA decided my son’s case was obvious enough he didn’t need the evaluation and they approved him for benefits on the first try.
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