Richard Cosentino is accused of receiving more than $200,000 in fraudulent disability payments.
Posted on 01/08/2014 7:20:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It is just not in NYC. It is replete throughout the entire country.
They don’t put those Cochran Firm “we can get your denied disability claims fixed for you” ads on TV for nothing.
Biggest scam there is.
Together with SSI, SSDI accounts for 25% of all Social Security disbursements. (SSI is not an SSA funded entitlement, but it is managed by SSA).
SSDI is very difficult to apply for and one usually needs legal assistance to get a SSA determination of SSDI eligibility.
Its far easier to qualify for and collect SSI because the eligibility standards are far looser.
There are people who fraudulently obtain Social Security benefits and that’s a felony. The vast majority of SSDI beneficiaries do meet the SSA determination.
There are people who are legitimately disabled. They can be denied benefits on the first application. Usually Social Security will send applicants to a doctor at their expense to determine whether a disability classification should be granted.
You have be incapable of doing any kind of normal gainful work to qualify. And obviously, this is where it can get subjective.
We all know here there are legitimately disabled people on it so it’s just a distraction really in discussing fraud. No one is talking about you or your relative, whatever.
The overarching point is there has been a steady increase in SSDI over the years, especially under Obama, and it is NOT due to legitimate disability.
My sister-in-law works for a charity and interviews these people all the time. She says, in our area, the biggest scam is “bipolar disorder”.
Whole families not working because of it. They even have thirty year old children living at home and can’t work because of “bipolar disorder”.
We could make them officially ‘bi-polar’.
Make every one of them take a job for 6 months in Antarctica
and at the North Pole weather stations for 6 months.
Then, I’d say they were ‘bi-polar’.
These people are all coached by lawyers and their retained scam doctors, IMO.
dishonest people are everywhere… when you have no conscience you have no shame
The important question is this -- Why the SUDDEN SURGE IN SSDI Applications?
The surge is because so many of the people in between UIC expiration, unemployed, not able to qualify for some entitlements because of too much personal wealth (assets, savings, etc.) are simply to young to even hit the minimum SS age of 62. The only thing left is SSDI, which they seek often and aggressively. They don’t want to have to go back to work at 50-55 and wait for age 62-66
RE: The only thing left is SSDI, which they seek often and aggressively.
The ‘D’ in SSDI is DISABILITY. Are these people really DISABLED?
If not, why the heck are we even considering their applications?
Cut off everyone, and make them re-apply with strict controls.
The city’s finest. Heroes all...no?
surely that is a rhetorical question…. if not then you merely need to look around at the moral decay around you. that is the answer to your question
D = Democrat
What did these guys do to get on the wrong side of the Democrats? This is the kind of behavior typically winked at.
It’s not some crusading right winger who is after them.
You can bet they took bribes, made false charges while on duty as police. All their cases would have to be looked into.
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