The purpose of Disinissues is to share experience and advice about the processes of obtaining and maintaining Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and long-term disability insurance.

The group is targeted mainly towards those with invisible disabilities, such as CFIDS and other conditions not on Social Security's Listing of Impairments.

Disinissues messages are available as individual email messages or in digest format.

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Please do not send a message before you receive and read the Welcome
Message and Group Guidelines, also available in Files.

Answers to frequent questions are in the Links and Files sections. Please look there first! Please do not use email messages to ask for basic information provided in Links and Files.

If you are not involved in a benefits process for yourself or a family member, please identify yourself to the moderators and explain what your purpose is for joining. Benefits professionals are welcome only if they are here to learn or to help.

Although sharing experience with disability claims is indeed very supportive, Disinissues is not a support group. Messages about the emotional difficulty of the transition from work to disability, or, generally, what it means to live with disabling illness, are not on-topic. Chit chat or discussion of personal, financial, or medical matters, including Medicare, is not permitted.

If you use a spam filter service that requires senders to confirm they're not spammers, to subscribe to this list you must use another email address that does not have that requirement.

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