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It's easier to get a disability rating in the SS system than in the VA!.......................
1 posted on 04/08/2025 5:28:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Liberal women are destroying the country.


2 posted on 04/08/2025 5:30:15 AM PDT by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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Probably taking at least 10% off the top, for their big ... er ... backsides.


5 posted on 04/08/2025 5:47:55 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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judges need to start being made rot pay for their errant for wasteful judgements.


7 posted on 04/08/2025 5:50:58 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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IIRC, back around 2015 or so, POTUS told the long-term unemployed to apply for Social Security disability in order to get the unemployment numbers down before the 2016 election.


8 posted on 04/08/2025 5:51:09 AM PDT by Abby4116
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Enemies domestic. Looters with robes


10 posted on 04/08/2025 5:52:39 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Well denials are routine for the first two levels. I have horrible experience with this.

They force your premiums. But when it’s time to pay out they could care less.

We had to get an attorney and fight for three years - and there was no question as to hubbys extreme disability (cancer, bone marrow transplant, complications, recurrent pneumonia) - all perfectly documented by reputable hospitals.

They just wanted him to somehow go back to work. Every doctor said he was too ill.


12 posted on 04/08/2025 5:53:21 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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“One Washington, D.C.-area administrative law judge, who is a white Bernie Sanders supporter, was overheard complaining that many of his peers viewed their job as a way to steer government checks to minorities, regardless of the facts.”

First, Sanders is a communist, and anyone who supports him is suspect. Secondly, who’s business is is to “steer checks to minorities”? Screw them! Why should my tax money, taken from me, literally at gunpoint, be handed out to “minorities?” White people are the world’s minority and we get nothing but grief, hate, and disrespect, and are expected to accept it. Watch how that doesn’t change when we become the “minority” here. These activist judges need to be impeached. That is the correct word right? That thing with the lamppost? I do believe the pot is boiling.


13 posted on 04/08/2025 5:53:49 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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It has long been noticed by EVERYONE that Social Security Disability is one of the most corrupt and abused parts of the Federal Government.


15 posted on 04/08/2025 5:57:05 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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Would be interesting to see what the racial statistics are for this approved vs disapproved


16 posted on 04/08/2025 5:57:07 AM PDT by LibertyOh
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Back in the Obama Administration, Obama Democrat operatives were enrolling perfectly healthy people ( directly into SS long term disability as soon as the enhanced, multiply extended unemployment benefits ran out to get them hooked on welfare.

When Obama took office there were just under 5 million people on SS Long Term Disability and by the end of his first term there were between 13-16 million .

This completely starved the SS disability trust fund system of funds to properly care for the truly disabled people who the program was originally intended to protect.

17 posted on 04/08/2025 5:57:15 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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IS DOGE INVESTIGATING SOCIAL SECURITY NOW?

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The AALJ, whose members make at least $185,000 a year, sued DOGE for accessing federal employee records, with Ramrup filing an affidavit that said, “Members of AALJ and I also fear that DOGE could use improperly disclosed records to retaliate against us.” She did not return a request for comment.

Social Security runs two disability programs: one, called Social Security Disability Insurance — for those who have worked in the past and now find themselves unable to — pays out roughly $150 billion a year in benefits). The other, called Supplemental Security Income, is for those who have never worked, and paid out about $54 billion in 2023.

Both programs, especially the latter, have been used as a shadow form of welfare for decades. In some Appalachian counties, more than a quarter of the population was on disability. In inner cities, unemployed individuals feign mental conditions like depression to get government checks that last a lot longer than welfare, which is limited to five years.


20 posted on 04/08/2025 6:21:23 AM PDT by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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Approval based only on race.


21 posted on 04/08/2025 6:23:11 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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REPEATING from the article:

Dozens of administrative law judges grant disability payments to almost everyone who appears before them, overriding Social Security staff who determined the people were not entitled to payments, a Daily Wire analysis found.

One of the Social Security Administration’s “regional chief administrative law judges,” Jennifer M. Horne, who leads the San Francisco hearing office, ruled in every case she heard last year that the claimant should be granted disability payments, even though in each case, two previous examinations had found the claimant should be denied.

Ronald Herman, hearing cases outside of Detroit, green lit payments in 95% of the 1,268 cases he heard.

Jan Leventer, hearing cases in Queens and Detroit, approved 94% of 2,159 cases, potentially amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.


24 posted on 04/08/2025 6:28:58 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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I’d like to know the net worth of such judges, and see how they survive an IRS audit.


26 posted on 04/08/2025 6:40:24 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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For 10% ?


27 posted on 04/08/2025 6:41:41 AM PDT by butlerweave
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“In 2013, then-Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) noted that administrative law judge hearings were one-sided affairs where applicants pleaded their case without anyone representing the taxpayer.”

Shouldn’t the judges be representing the taxpayer? Who are they representing — God?


31 posted on 04/08/2025 8:58:12 AM PDT by MikeHu
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These are obviously REPARATIONS judges who need to be booted... Or they have lifetime appointments because they belong to Le Club Federale?


32 posted on 04/08/2025 9:04:59 AM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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Eric C. Conn, a former attorney, orchestrated the largest Social Security fraud scheme in U.S. history, costing the government an estimated $550 million. His scheme involved bribing doctors and a judge to approve fraudulent disability claims, allowing him to collect millions in legal fees. After pleading guilty in 2017 and being sentenced to 12 years in prison, Conn fled by cutting off his ankle monitor, sparking a six-month international manhunt. He was eventually captured in Honduras in December 2017 and extradited to the U.S..

As a result of his escape, Conn’s sentence was extended by an additional 15 years, bringing his total prison term to 27 years. He is currently incarcerated at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey, with a scheduled release date of November 2039. His fraudulent activities also led to significant hardships for his former clients, many of whom had their disability benefits revoked or underwent extensive re-evaluations.

Yes, Eric C. Conn is currently in prison. He is serving a 27-year sentence for his role in orchestrating the largest Social Security fraud scheme in U.S. history. As of recent updates, he is incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Fort Dix in New Jersey, with a scheduled release date of November 2039.


33 posted on 04/08/2025 9:10:51 AM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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That's just great. When my late wife was diagnosed with a terminal illness and given 6 months to live SS gave her $900 a month in benefits - starting in 6 months. She died in 5.

At least they gave me a couple hundred for the funeral.
34 posted on 04/08/2025 10:15:13 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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