[SeekAndFind]

Richard Cosentino is accused of receiving more than $200,000 in fraudulent disability payments.

[Gaffer]

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).

[cloudmountain]

I was always amazed at this scam.
You KNOW that if those cheats were THAT good at cheating, they were smart enough to earn money legally.
One can be INDECENTLY rich legally. It's the stupids or the born-with-the-hand-out-lazies who are the problem. It's my read that the latter folks were TAUGHT to take and take only...born and bred with an entitlement attitude.

[Slyfox]

After stealing numerous Social Security numbers and deriving benefits from them, he won the Presidency Lotto...

[goldstategop]

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.

[Nifster]

dishonest people are everywhere… when you have no conscience you have no shame

[petercooper]

Cut off everyone, and make them re-apply with strict controls.

[nascarnation]

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.