Supplemental Social Security Income (SSI) is income based. In general you can only earn and/or have in savings of a very little amount before your monthly check off approximately approximately $783 will be reduced. If you are getting free room and board of any type you might have your check reduced by one-third. Many people who get a backpay check when they first become eligible are surprised to find this out. This can get to...

The Tower of Babel is the Bible Story where everyone in the world spoke one language. Then they started building a tower to reach heaven. God did not like this. He knocked down the tower and then made it so that all of a sudden all the people of the world no longer spoke one language but spoke forty different languages. As a result they were no longer able to communicate with eachother and start building the tower again.

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First of all I am not going to tell you what the question is. I am going to tell you something useful though related to the question. This is a question that I prepare all of my clients to answer and to answer fully and truthfully. The answer to this question, for which there can be many different answers, can in some cases provide the judge with a helluva lot of useful insight and information in making a decision on your case...

In general the following is true about this issue. Social Security will know if you have ever smoked marijuana. If you have ever used marijuana ILLEGALLY there is a good chance it will hurt your case. This is true even if you used it for medicinal purpose. If you have ever smoked marijuana LEGALLY for medicinal purposes there is still a good chance it will hurt your case. If you used it LEGALLY under the gu...