Next Hurdle

Okay it has been a while and I have had a few unexpected things happen. But for the latest on the disability BS. I sent in my appeal to the Appeals Board in Falls Church Va to appeal the judges decision. I also decided to call Binder and Binder (you know the Attnys that say they can help you get your disability), I got a return call and they said that they wanted me to fax over all of the paperwork I had from the ALJ's decision and a statement from my doctor. So I did as I was asked to do and I got a second call asking me to refax that everything did not come through,. So I faxed it a second time and got the same call. I told them I had sent everything that the judge sent to me. At that point I was told that I should have a 16 page report from the judge on how he came to his decision and the papers he reviewed to get there. I informed them that all I had was the pages of his decision and that I had sent them all I had. So on the phone again with SS 800 # (man are they stupid!!) I was told that there was no other paperwork and that after the decision was made by the judge that they filed everything electronically and the paperwork was shredded for my protection(who's protection????) So then I asked about my appeal that I sent back on Jan. 23 and was told that it had not been recieved in Falls Church
Va yet and to give it a couple of more weeks. In the meantime I had sent all of the papers I had to Binder and Binder and also added a CD that we made of my feet and hands so that they could see the shape they were in. I also took pictures of the same angles of feet and hands to the ALJ. So I suppose they were shredded as well. So while I am trying to find out what is happening with my appeal and them having no record of it being filed, I get another call from the attnys office stating that I needed to file my appeal right away because my deadline for my 60 days is up on March 9, 2009. So I call them back and explain that I did file the appeal and that I had just talked to SS two days before and they have no record of my appeal in teh system to give it a couple more weeks. The girl I was talking to went to her supervisor and came back and told me if they had no record of it, to go to my SS office here in Savannah and have them fax it to Falls Church. I went to the SS office on Wedensday after a doctor's appointment and the girl that helped me get everything transferred here to Savannah looked in the system for me and low and behold, there is a pending appeal and she found the date they recieved the paperwork, which was Jan 28, 2009. So after all the 800 # had to say, I don't know how much was true. The attnys office told me that if I waited the 2 weeks they wanted me to wait, I would have had to start all over if the appeal was never filed. So here I go again!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am getting so tired of all of this stupid stuff. No wonder people give up. The 800 # for SS said they had never seen a case go this far so they did not know what to do about it. Now it is back to wait and see.