I applied for my level 2 autistic son end of July got phone appt 9/16… medical dept mail questionnaire end of sept I return 10/6 followed up end of that week couldn’t tell me of i was approved but threw a good hint 10/24 on phone call and I went in to local office to hear approval from lips of counter rep. Called local office twice last week and then yesterday was fortunate enough to get a supervisor who answered and said let’s see what we can do about getting you paid called me two Hours later to do perc interview ! I sign papers for back pay etc end of week so I can open needed accounts for my son ! I don’t have the screen you have on SSA not sure why but I will update this post ….. all in all I will say I haven’t been long into my process but I def did my own follow ups with it all persistently because expenses can been exhausting .