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 disability due to CFIDS or 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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Answers to frequent questions are in the Links and Files sections. Please look there first! Do not use email messages to ask for basic information provided on the website. Read the Welcome Message and group rules before sending a message.

If you are involved in a claim, it is important not to reveal your name in your messages. Use words, not names, in your From name and email address.

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 if here to learn or to help.

Although sharing experience with disability claims is indeed 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, medical, or health insurance matters, including Medicare, is not permitted.

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