No one I know regards doing SS disability work as profitable, in fact no one I know does this work.
However, the feds have been handing out disability checks like candy, buying votes for such ailments as “nerves”, having ADD, asthma, you frickin name it.
Here in Indiana, all the ambulance chasers are now also running tv ads for helping with SocSec disability claims.
http://www.2keller.com/practice_areas/indianapolis-social-security-disability-lawyers.cfm
http://www.getstewart.com/social-security-disability-lawyer-indiana.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9bv2ZPeFlQ