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My Colorado clients sometimes tell me that they waited years to apply for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. When I ask them why, I get a number of reasons:

I did not want to appear needy.
I did not want to believe I was disabled.
I did not want to look [...]

Subject to Complete Defeasance has a great article about how Long Term Disability (LTD) insurance companies make you apply for Social Security benefits, including this snippet of a conversation with an insurance company:
Insurance Company [agent]: “Have you applied for Social Security disability benefits?”
You: “No.”
ICJ: “When do you plan on applying?”
You: “I don’t.”
ICJ: “Why not?”
You: “Well, I [...]

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