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The person in the video is lying. You don’t get disability simply for not speaking English. The DIB and SSI systems start off of a grid of rules that consider an individual’s age, education, exertional capacity, and work experience. Their English literacy is considered under education. Lack of education/literacy does lower the threshold for disability, but you would still have to have significant physical impairments, little work history and/or be very old.
There is a specific social security ruling that has to do with Fibromyalgia (SSR 12-2p, maybe?) that sets forth specific diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia to even be considered an impairment. The criteria in that ruling are very narrow. Whether the DDS/judge applies them correctly is more or less up to the judge, but by rule it’s pretty difficult to be considered disabled for fibromyalgia.
@DynaLo IMO, actual fibromyalgia can actually be extremely limiting, the problem is that it becomes a catch all for unexplained (or fabricated) pain.
I used to sell a SNRI that was used off label for fibromyalgia, we had a SNRI competitor (Cymbalta) that was approved for it and were moderately effective.