Posted on 04/03/2013 6:44:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
But for a disabled Veteran to get disability he/she must jump multiple hoops and wait and wait and wait.
Shame
When you roll off your 99 weeks of Unemplooyment, you roll right onto Disability.
And after two years of sitting on your a$$, you probably are disabled!
The Obama administration has been corraling those who run out of unemployment into SSDI. I used to be very difficult to get the benefits. Now, all they have to do is claim depression or some phony made up illness.
That is why so many unemployed aren’t screaming about jobs.
It is cyclical. People get on disability for nothing and then one day the government demands that everyone prove they are disabled.
I knew a guy that was on it for drug addiction. They shook him out of the tree immediately when the Republicans took over Congress in the 90’s.
A woman I knew was on it for Epilepsy. Epilepsy can sometimes be hard to prove or refute. She was telling everyone that the Republicans were killing her by taking away her government check.
“Now, all they have to do is claim depression or some phony made up illness.”
Actually, they always turn you down the first time and then you get a lawyer. Then you are in.
Since Bill Clinton proclaimed to ‘change welfare as we know it’, this is what we’re left.
Ex son-in-law, same thing. "Bad back" at age 28, he's been milking S.S.D.I. now for 16 years. He works for cash now, when he works.
I got tired of tax payers supporting his marijuana and beer habits and reported him a couple of times. Result - - - Nothing at all.
LOL What a country. For attorneys anyway.
I’m trying to get my BIL to go on Disability. His knees are gone and he worked in Steel all his life so that is gone too.
Disability = Scam.
His knees probably have little or zero cartlidge. Simple x rays prove that fact and SS says that means disabled.
Bad backs and mood disorders are hard if impossible to prove, therefore most those people experience many denials unless they hire a lawyer to work the system for them.
Now I know there are people who do suffer life changing disabilities and need that safety net; but also see many more who abuse the system. The crazy thing is, you’ll see entire extended families; everybody on disability. They actually work at getting both spouses collecting then pump out 7-8 kids who are all covered by the govt. No joke, they have doctor visits every week, all travel and expenses covered; just shopping trips on the govt dime. Then they start home schooling their kids to get the state ed benefits until the kids fail the benchmarks after a couple years of no education. No joke they really have the safety net, benefit game figured out; and yet most of us would never even consider that lifestyle. Has to be some accountability someday.
RE: Now I know there are people who do suffer life changing disabilities and need that safety net; but also see many more who abuse the system.
OK, can someone please explain to me the SUDDEN SURGE in life changing disabilities?
Just to be fair. there are those on disability that comes from Private ins policies Like from mutual of O or AFLAC etc.Not all you meet are sucking the govt.
Just to be clear depression is not a phony made up illness, although there ar a few.
Some of the problem is that we have an aging population increasingly unable to do physical labor and not enough sedentary labor to keep them all employed.
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