Who would want to live on 1240 bucks a month....ok sure 300 for food, low housing, low heat, obamaphone, but still not even near the money I enjoy making at my job. I think these people overall are crazy.
I'd wager many of the newbies are formerly unemployed who exhausted benefits after their 99 week extension.
There is a sort of inertia which sets in with the chronically unemployed, at some point drive goes into neutral and they are content to coast.
As for the 1240, that's just the base pay....likely as much as unemployment brought in for 99 weeks, and doesn't count the cash action on the side...for those who just signed up to coast and aren't truly disabled.
The obscenity here is that the genuinely disabled who paid in are going to lose because of slackers who have gamed the system.
Remember that’s just the SSDI amount.
Throw in $400 offood stamps and other deals, maybe some “underground economy” bucks, perhaps another family member is working.
Disability is just one program. Add food stamps to that. Section 8 Housing. Add Medicare. Add Medicaid. Add energy assistance. Add transportation vouchers & assistance.