The client's life may be a tad easier, due to a little monthly money coming in the door - Or the availability of Medicare or Medicaid. So, while there may be no legal fee from SSA as a result of winning, we get paid in spirit. No, it doesn't pay the bills, and the limits of how many such cases I can take are necessarily based on the time available after the bills are paid. That does stink :( But, I look forward to the day when I can hire another advocate to help take on more and more of these cases that don't pay the bills, but are important to represent anyway. To do this, obviously, means donations.
I also take on cases that no one else will touch for other reasons - if, morally, the claimant deserves financial assistance but for legally technical reasons, he or she has a slim shot of being able to prove the necessaries to get his or her benefits, I don't want to turn him away
For example:
Some Vietnam vets who haven't worked in a decade, haven't been treated in 10 years, and haven' t been insured with SSD for even more years, are and have been my clients. Good chance of winnng? Nope, at least not by others' standards. But all else being equal, in an effort to give back to these unsung Heros, whom without I may not be so free or so fortunate, I feel a duty here. I wish more people did. If there is a 10% or 5% chance of winning for them, after putting in a 150% effort, they deserve the representation, the chance, to have their life made a little easier. And so I take them as clients, so long as I see that glimmer of chance. I am often pleasantly surprised, albeit, a little tighter in the wallet :)
So yes, Donations here help us pay the advocacy office bills so we can continue to 'level the disability playing field, in an otherwise uneven game.' The laws should not just work and be available for those with money, in the USA, they should be available for all.
Thank you for donating whatever you can that won't cause you to do without.
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