My
disability claim was approved and they backdated it to the last time I worked in Aug of 2007. I will be getting back-pay up to one year before I filed my claim 18 months ago.
We have been hurting for money for a long time (It was time for me to get a job a long time ago) and have been living off the GI-Bill money that my husband was supposed to use for school expenses and taking out loans. My husband is working full time weekend nights while going to full time school daytime through the week. Now we will be able to pay all that off and have money coming in! My husband will graduate as a nurse this spring and that will almost triple his current income.
The first of the money was payments for my children, since they have a disabled parent they will get SSI until they are each 18. Their back pay is enough to pay off the rest of the house loan. (Mobile-home that we downsized to when my husband started school) That would cut $400 from being payed out each month!
When we get the back pay to my disability money I plan on reinstating our gym membership so I can take water aerobics classes again. it will help not only my depressive slides, but also relieve my arthritis this winter. I plan on getting cable in the house again (we have had zero TV channels in the house for several years- and I miss it) I want to get my daughter a phone on our family plan so I know where she is since she was recently Dx with bipolar.
The back pay will help pay off my husband's tuition since we have put off paying that since we were living off the money. It will pay for the additional Dr's visits that my daughter is seeing. It will pay for Christmas! I was worried how we were going to swing it this year.
I have been waiting for good news for a long time. Here it is! I'm past the "I'm sorry that you have a disability" phase (a long time ago). Everyone I tell (even though they already knew that I had a claim going) seems to have mixed emotions when reacting. Are you supposed to be sad when the claim is approved? The condition doesn't improve if I get declined. It didn't get worse because I have the disabled classification. I can be happy, right?
So, what do you think would be the best use of the money to make living with BP easier? Gym? Cleaning service? What haven't I thought of? I'm sure that it will all get sucked into the budget before I even blink twice. I want to make plans that will actually make a difference in day to day life before it all get eaten up.
Post Edited (_Christina) : 11/5/2010 9:34:02 PM (GMT-6)