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Same thing happens with FISA courts. Whenever the BeijingBiden Admin wanted to spy on non-commie trash the court just said “go ahead”.
I was in a Social Security office some years back and the VAST MAJORITY of people waiting in the office to apply for Social Security were NOT old people but young black men applying for 'disability'.
Black men in their twenties who planned on taking benefits for over 50 years if approved. IT'S time tp look at this mess for the sake of people who really are disabled... give us the numbers - who and where do they live? What's really going on?
Why would there not be a high approval rate?
In general, The cases don’t get brought unless there is a valid need.
The same reason that most criminal trials should result in a conviction. Cases that should not be brought should be dismissed by the prosecutors before they reach trial.
This system is mightily abused.
When Obama took office there were 4.5 million people on Social Security Disability and by the end of his term is was up to around 16 million.
So many perfectly healthy , able boded people were sucking of the disability system that it completely starved the SS disability trust fund of assets and money which froze out funds for the truly disabled Americans the program was intended to support. ,
There are literally millions of people who were laid off at the start of the Obama Administration and never worked another official, on the books day in their lives
They called it back door reparations.
There has to be a HUGE network of kickbacks here!
But at the VA even legally blind Vietnam Veterans have to wait years with several denials before they can get any help...
A lot of laid offed/fired/downsized white men in the latter part of their careers, say 55 and older, are on SSDI. They decided rationally like any welfare recipient that it is better to accept a government check that pays better than working for less than their former wage and benefits.
It’s my understanding that denies almost all claims for disability. That in turn results in high approval rates on appeal AND a presumption among ALJs that the claim was unfairly denied.
SSA needs to do a better job on the front end and deny fewer claims. And ALJs need to do a better job on the back end and really verify the claim.
My son-in-law is in law enforcement in the Carolinas. He has been to the same address on many calls. When he asks the resident what he does for a living, the guy says he’s on disability..........for stress.
OMG! Who authorizes this kind of stuff?
Part of why we have so many “special ed” kids (incredibly expensive for school districts) is because any parents can find some support for some sort of claim that makes their kids mini ATMs. Not good for anybody except, in the short term, the parent(s).
That is less than 1.5 cases per working day per judge - hardly overworked.
My anecdotal experience from friends and family is that if you’re white, you have a hell of a time getting approval.
Social Security disability claims, everytyhing spiked in the Obama years:
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/dibGraphs.html#2
This narrative is false. Only ~44% of ALL social disability claims are approved. None of us know when a stroke, Heart attack or bone disease will make us unable to work.
Ironically, SSDI is barely enough to live on and you aren’t allowed to work. It’s a system to keep people in poverty.
I knew a guy who went on SSDI and later fell out of a tree stand while hunting. He went back to get more money, arguing “Now I really CAN’T work”. Many people on it here have a side business like mowing lawns, house cleaning, car detailing, etc.
Paging Mr. Elon Musk pick up the red phone please.
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