Posted on 06/09/2015 2:46:15 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
A government audit finds that the Social Security Disability Insurance program paid out $16.8 billion in disability benefits over the past decade to about four million people who either were working, made too much money, were in prison, were dead, weren't eligible or were no longer physically or mentally disabled.
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Don’t want to work? Get a lawyer (who’ll get you a ‘doctor’) and claim “anxiety, carpal, back pain, etc. - all those symptoms that are too hard to medically disprove”.
For somebody over 50 who just don’t want to work out the 16 more years it’s worth giving up a few SSDI checks to the lawyer to get a decade’s worth of payments.
I know that when I used to get those SS statements, the SSDI payment for permanent disability was higher than any other payment.
A few years ago I spent about 4 hours or so researching just exactly what SSDI and SSI are. I found out that SSA manages both, but SSI comes out of the general fund. At that time, SSA and SSI accounted for over one quarter of everything SSA doled out. That was before Obama - I’d guess that’s higher now.
I seem to remember that the Obsms admin was giving disability to anyone who wanted it a while back. If they didn’t get unemployment, they got disability.
This bunch of 4 million looks to have “scammed” about $4,000 each. Not chump change, but not huge fraud/waste over a ten year period.
That’s right; it served the dual purposes of skewing unemployment numbers and creating another Dem voting bloc (a new class of gibsmedats - the “fake disabled”).
I have a co-worker trying to get it, so far unsuccessfully; she has resorted to blowing up in size with a dozen packets of sugar in each cup of coffee because an earlier attempt after a car accident failed.
No, but I’d also guess that there are a lot of people on SSDI who are technically eligible for it because they paid lawyers to build a case for them. Daytime TV is full of these lawyers shilling for new SSDI clients - they’ll even get you the doctor.
There should be a way to ease recipients off disability. In the case I'm familiar with, the person probably would've been better off living with respiratory problems and not trying to fix them.
Yep. SSDI Statistics. Surprising number of people get this payout.
Yep...lots of money. SSI statistics aren’t any better...
I know someone who did time for his fake disability.
I’m pretty sure someone blew the whistle on him, however.
SSDI is given to ANYONE who can’t speak English. I was told “They can’t speak English, so they can’t work.” by an SS employee.
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Im disabled, been hospitalized a few times, and collecting
SSDI. All my litigation paperwork/records are V.A.
medical information and data. I met the age and
“quarters” requirements, but was still denied, and had
to sue, to get what I paid for. The denial by the
government was mis-categorized, therefore I won.
I’m not a Ferguson porch sitter.
I started working at 16 years old, and was over 50,
when I began litigation.
Honestly, I’m more worried what they pay for people who are eligible. I know of one able-bodied regular on a “radio talk show” who gets the following:
- Subsidized Housing
- In house meals
- Housekeeper (yes, a housekeeper)
- Gov’t funded therapist
- Car service to get to the therapist and other appts.
- Plus, the regular array of medicaid coverage
It’s nuts.
ss Disability always denies first time applicants unless it’s mental or drugs.
A member of my Sunday School class was on the Heart Transplant list and could not work if he had to. The church kept his family afloat the best it could. It took 4 tries and a lawyer to get the Disability through.
After his heart transplant and the doctor cleared him to return to work at a desk job, he went back to work and off Disability.
Now if you were an ILLEGAL you’d get it in a heartbeat.
Being dead sounds like a pretty big disability. (I do wonder how they cash that check, though.)
Claim Chronic Fatigue syndrome or back pain. I know a few. Scammers.
The same people who ensure that they vote also cash the check.
I see two commercials all the time. One is fortyish loser white woman who just has this constipated look and she’s whining about how “they” don’t believe her because she “can’t work”. She felt all better after she got Scumbag, Leech and Parasite, LLC involved, though. “She got the money she DESERVED.”
Second one was a Hispanic lady nearing retirement age who had carpal or something. Really pained look on her and she was really hurt because “they” also didn’t believe her. But Good old S,L & P, LLC got that fixed and she, too, “Got the money she DESERVED.”
CFS is related to your buttcheeks being welded to the seat cushions on the couch. Also, the troublesome carpal tunnel syndrome often accompanies it. Usually from using the same buttons on the TV Remote all the time while your butt is welded to the couch cushions.
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