Print

Acknowledgments We would like to express our gratitude to the many applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income benefits who shared their struggles with us to help us understand the system from their perspective. And our thanks go as well to the clinicians who expressed to us their confusion and frustration in their efforts to support their patients’ applications for benefits. We are grateful to the researchers, many of whom we have cited, who have shared their expertise and find- ings that exposed us to other ideas, perceptions, and interpretations of disability and Social Security regulations. Special thanks to Michael Ste- phen Stretton III, direct payment non-attorney, a veritable guru of all things Title II and Title XVI. Thank you, Praeger and especially Debbie Carvalko, for your confidence in and support of our work. And thank you to those who represent the interests of SSDI and SSI claimants who are deeply motivated to find justice for their clients.