My wife is disabled and i had to quit my job to take care of her full time is there some way of collecting benifits for doing this?
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June 15th, 2009
she is allready on medicare and ssi….and has been for years
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If you are the caretaker of someone on ssi you can be granted a small ssi payment as well, but it isn’t much. That is what happened when I quit to care for my husband. It was a couple hundred dollars a month. If she is eligible for Medicaid she might be allowed a visiting nurse or an aide so you can get a part-time job outside of home.
Otherwise I suggest you figure out some way to work from home. I sell books online, one neighbor is a medical transcriptionist, another works for an insurance company, and yet another operates a “golf shop” out of his garage (and flirts with being cited for running a business in a residential zone).
When my mother in law got sick with MS before she passed away the SRS office set her up with a home health care agency. They paid my brother in law for forty hours a week to take care of her. He was basically an employee of the home health care agency. It worked out well for them for several years.
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