Concern about SSI

FabianLuna

FabianLuna

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Hello everybody, I would like to know more about SSI. I am hard of hearing, I am currently in College. I only plan to use SSI for college, after I get a job I will cut off my SSI. I wonder if it's possible for me to get SSI. I live in a small town, don't have a driver license yet(I am still in the practice stage). I'm currently in Imperial Valley College and will transfer to UCLA in 2 years.
 
Once get on SSI, it gets harder to get off. Trust me, find a job at burger joint or something is better than getting SSI. Cause when you had a job and gone college, your increase your chances of landing a good career.

I have seen enough already. Stay away from SSI if you can.
 
Okay, well thank you for your advice. It's just that I don't wan't any rides from my parents to my job when I get one since they're already busy with their job and my baby sister. I expect it to be very hard to find a job in small town like Holtville, California. How is having a job gonna help land a good career? I never heard about this before.
 
Showing how much you dedicate yourself to your own career tells everything about you.

If I were a boss of a corporate and I need to hire a talent, hard working to fulfill my business needs and I happen to get two applications, one that went to college and had no job during that time, and the other one that went to college, and hold two part time jobs during the entire time of college career, I would pick the second one cause what the first application doing during free time? No job? makes me wondering why.

How you approach really tells a lot about yourself. So, would you rather advertise yourself to future boss that you only want study, and party, or would you rather show that you are more interesting in career than party? Think about it.
 
Well that's true that a talent and hard working come into the picture, but what about portfolios (I'm not sure if it's spelled correctly). The career that I want to go toward to is Computer Animation Artist, for this career I must practice art and technological use. I don't really party though, although I hated Calculus and it made me so stressed out, I'm so relieved to have a lot of free times now. I understand that I must become more responsible.
 
FabianLuna said:
Hello everybody, I would like to know more about SSI. I am hard of hearing, I am currently in College. I only plan to use SSI for college, after I get a job I will cut off my SSI. I wonder if it's possible for me to get SSI. I live in a small town, don't have a driver license yet(I am still in the practice stage). I'm currently in Imperial Valley College and will transfer to UCLA in 2 years.
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Can you handle the time management between school and work?

If not, go for SSI, also you need to find internships or summer careers when you are not in school.

The education is #1.

That's better than nothing, even you could have federal work-study.

Also, due to hard of hearing, you may be denied for SSI because you are not deaf enough so you are likely to appeal.
 
FabianLuna said:
Hello everybody, I would like to know more about SSI. I am hard of hearing, I am currently in College. I only plan to use SSI for college, after I get a job I will cut off my SSI. I wonder if it's possible for me to get SSI. I live in a small town, don't have a driver license yet(I am still in the practice stage). I'm currently in Imperial Valley College and will transfer to UCLA in 2 years.
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you should be contacting your state's Vocational Rehabilitation service and if you qualify - the state will pay for your college tuition.
 
The thing with you being hard of hearing it would take you months to even see if you qualify, that is if you don't need to appeal. But if you need to appeal, it's another long road and you're not guaranteed.

They're even denying deaf people with cochlear implants and these people have to go through the appeals process. This is their way of trying to tightening the belt on enrollees to save money.

And if you do, you only get a small amount of benefit that you're better off working at the school as a student worker.
 
Hey Foxrac, well yeah I think I do have time management, I just figured out that I didn't have to read the whole college textbooks, just a sentence of each sections of the chapter and the terms. The whole chapter would cost me 3 hours (sometimes I doze off so it'll be more). On monday and wednesday I have class from 1:30-3:00pm, but I take the transit bus and there are few options of time. I take the transit bus daily. Tuesday and Thursday I have school from 8:30-10 am. On Friday I have class from 11:35am-3:00 pm. I also have an online class. I'd go out looking for a job if I have a driver license.
 
Hey alive, well I thought that's what would happen, I suspected that they might not approve me. Well I'll try to find a job, preferably in my hometown.
 
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They're even denying deaf people with cochlear implants and these people have to go through the appeals process.

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I don't understand - why would deaf pple with CI have harder time to apply for SSI?

unless you mean: apply for the CI surgery?

Fuzzy
 
Audiofuzzy said:
I don't understand - why would deaf pple with CI have harder time to apply for SSI?

unless you mean: apply for the CI surgery?

Fuzzy
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nope. not apply for CI surgery. he said "deaf people with CI"...... which means they ALREADY had CI...

the government assumes you can hear almost like hearing people therefore... you don't need SSI. it's their job to make it difficult for people to get benefit otherwise.... the government would be very broke long time ago.
 
Why not attend CSUN National Center on Deafness | California State University, Northridge or NTID? RIT - National Technical Institute for the Deaf or even Gally?Gallaudet University One advantage of going THERE is that you'd be in areas that were dhh friendly, and so it would be a LOT easier to get a job both when you're in college, and when you graduate? Trust me.... unless you've got Harvard level abilty and really good networking skills, it's very hard to find a job...Even hearing kids struggle with finding jobs now.
 
deafdyke said:
Why not attend CSUN National Center on Deafness | California State University, Northridge or NTID? RIT - National Technical Institute for the Deaf or even Gally?Gallaudet University One advantage of going THERE is that you'd be in areas that were dhh friendly, and so it would be a LOT easier to get a job both when you're in college, and when you graduate? Trust me.... unless you've got Harvard level abilty and really good networking skills, it's very hard to find a job...Even hearing kids struggle with finding jobs now.
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I think he is currently living at home with his parents which saves the kind of costs colleges charge for room & board.
 
Jane B. said:
I think he is currently living at home with his parents which saves the kind of costs colleges charge for room & board.
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Ive read stories where kids have bought vans/busses and converted them to live in, camp out at the colleges (illegal some places) but gotta go undercover and keep it a secret.
 
Yeah, Jane B. Is correct in what she said about me living at home with my parents. Imperial valley college is a community college which is a lot cheaper than other colleges. I think deafdyke mean for the transfer to UCLA. Well I would transfer to CSUN if they have the major that I want, I think the major for computer animation artists is computer animation art(or media). I don't really have Harvard level ability, only close to that level. I kinda have a network but mostly throughout my family.
 
Yeah ha ha... not gonna do that, it's going to be hard to keep it undercover. Mistakes could be made and that would jeopardize the ability to keep it a secret.
 
What? I tried quoting sonocativo's statement but I guess I don't get the feel of how this site work exactly yet.
 
It never hurt to check out with Voc. Reh first to see what you will do from there. Voc. reh will give you some tips to step the order of applying SSI and school stuff. I strongly suggest you to ask lot of questions that relates with incomes due to your living with parents. They will think you are living with parents for free. If its true, then you ll have to figure out about it.

good luck.
 
V.R. has been paying for my college tuition and some of the book costs (they pay up to $350 towards required course books, any more costs beyond that fall on me, but I also get financial aid from FAFSA as well, which helps cover the rest of the book costs and other things needed for school). V.R. is a very useful resource available, and they are there to help people with disabilities to go to college or get jobs, etc.
 
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