United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

My Son is 7 years old with a severe BPI. I am looking into getting SSI to help with medical expenses. Any idea how SSI looks at BPI? Are many BPI patients on SSI? Thanks for your help.

hi my names chris and my accident was a little over 2yrs ago right tbpi i got my ssi after about a year and a half you have to have a lawyer but you can get it with tbpi i had several other injuries to but the main thing was the tbpi good luck

We applied for SSI for our child with a BPI, and he would have been accepted because of this disability, but unfortunately they said we had too many "assets". So, we are looking at what we can do with our "assets" to help our child. You are allowed quite a bit more than if you were applying for medicaid, and if you get the SSI, you are automatically qualified for medicaid. Thats the way it is here anyway.