11 Million On Disability: Why Are Rolls Rising So Fast?

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 06/17/2014 | John Merline

[Biggirl]

.....If there are any jobs at all.

[Theoria]

Unfit for Work[FR]

[Kenny Bunk]

Disability. Gravy Train Fraud.

YES! ........... and no.

[Hot Tabasco]

First they go on unemployment.

Depending on the size of the company they were laid off from, quite often the worker faced with the permanent loss of his job will also file a workers comp claim against the company.

Back around '78 - '80, already suffering the effects of the recession, my company in Detroit sold off it's Wheel and Brake division which resulted in the permanent layoff of of 700 - 800 employees.

Over the next year or two, our corporate Workers Comp dept. was deluged with over 300 workers comp claims. The plant's Local union was telling the employees to file the claims and of course refering them to the respective WC attorneys.....

As business started turning around about 1985, we were able to go into hiring mode again. Many of those who were let go were ultimately rehired over the next several years but those who had filed WC claims were ignored........