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Disability claims by the unemployed skyrocketing
Sun Sentinel ^ | 09/24/11 | Sally Kestin

Posted on 09/26/2011 8:04:23 AM PDT by DFG

Laid-off workers desperate for money, many of them aging baby boomers, are flooding South Florida Social Security offices like never before to apply for disability benefits.

Demand is so great nationwide that congressional estimates show the disability program will run out of money and won't be able to cover all beneficiaries in just six years.

n Florida, applications are up more than 40 percent since 2007. Many are coming from people with mental or physical conditions who once were able to work and now can't, or who lost their job and are unable to find a new one.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disability; ssa

1 posted on 09/26/2011 8:04:29 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

If you build it, they will come.


2 posted on 09/26/2011 8:10:00 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: DFG

sure fire way to win an ssdi case is to prove a “non-exertional impairment”. How about Obamamania?


3 posted on 09/26/2011 8:10:46 AM PDT by stan_sipple
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To: DFG
Well, first, they are aging; second, some of these people probably would never ever have thought to seek assistance for a legitimate physical hardship if they could simply get to work...and then there are the gamers of the system.

Interesting what a Shrinking Pie brings out in people.

4 posted on 09/26/2011 8:16:34 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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To: the invisib1e hand

A man with a big fork.


5 posted on 09/26/2011 8:21:15 AM PDT by AceMineral (Some people are too stupid for their own good.)
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To: AceMineral
A man with a big fork.

And lots of Ice Cream.

6 posted on 09/26/2011 8:25:05 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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To: DFG
I'm sorry, but in TODAY'S society, EVERYONE is a "victim".

You can ALWAYS find some ache or pain, get a willing-accomplice "Doctor" to say it's caused by work-related injury (even if it's hyper-tension, headache, etc.), and gain a partial or full Disability payout, at the expense of OTHERS (either through increased Premiums for Insurance, increased costs of goods and services, increased TAXES if it's a taxpayer-funded payout).

There's no end to those on the dole, in any way possible. You can't just grow old anymore; it has to be someone else's fault!

7 posted on 09/26/2011 8:28:18 AM PDT by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: DFG

“There, but for the grace of God....”

I’m 58, and have some empathy for these folks. My small business once kept six to eight professionals employed full-time, year round, at very good wages. In mid 2006, business began to fall off, and kept going downhill until all that was left were me and my wife.

In the last two years what remains of our business has barely kept us alive, and doing the production work all by myself is now a challenge at my age.

Several times, work has become so sparse, that I’ve actually applied for work at other companies. Rarely have I gotten a call back from those interviews, though I’ve been more than qualified for the positions. Those moments have been frightening for my family.

Thankfully, things have never become so desperate, that I was forced to do what these folks are doing.


8 posted on 09/26/2011 8:38:38 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: DFG

Reduce taxes and cut the federal civilian workforce. How hard is that to understand.


9 posted on 09/26/2011 9:04:23 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: DFG

I work for a company that hires “independent” contractors to drive vending type trucks (all legal US citizens). About half the drivers are on disability or some type of government assistance. It’s an all cash business and the drivers don’t claim crap on their taxes, they even brag about it. I bet most dont even file. All of these people are not disabled, they have some issues but they all can obviously work. Makes me sick...


10 posted on 09/26/2011 12:09:24 PM PDT by Bud Krieger (Another President , another idiot......)
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"Makes me sick..."

Welcome to another outgrowth of the "cloward-piven strategy."

People I've known all my life are now struggling to get ahold of any governmental teat possible. Like a litter of puppies, they crawl all over each other squealing, winpering and whining. Makes me sick too...

11 posted on 09/26/2011 1:09:59 PM PDT by SierraWasp (I'm done being disappointed by "He/She is the only one who can win" and being embarrassed later!!!)
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