Posted on 12/28/2022 6:12:03 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
He had made it through four years of denials and appeals, and Robert Heard was finally before a Social Security judge who would decide whether he qualified for disability benefits. Two debilitating strokes had left the 47-year-old electrician with halting speech, an enlarged heart and violent tremors.
There was just one final step: A vocational expert hired by the Social Security Administration had to tell the judge if there was any work Heard could still do despite his condition. Heard was stunned as the expert canvassed his computer and announced his findings: He could find work as a nut sorter, a dowel inspector or an egg processor - jobs that virtually no longer exist in the United States.
But while the judge agreed that Heard had multiple, severe impairments, he denied him benefits, writing that he had "job opportunities" in three occupations that are nearly obsolete and agreeing with the expert's dubious claim that 130,000 positions were still available sorting nuts, inspecting dowels and processing eggs.
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Unemployment levels and maximums vary widely by state.
Yep.
Wow that is a great unemployment amount for 6 months/sar
I’m sure he could get a job as a groom or carriage driver.
Explains why my application got denied, even though at the time I was having dizzy spells so bad I couldn’t even talk straight.
I remember what my mother went through to get onto disability. She had vision problems, sciatica, a hard time moving around. Basically, she couldn’t work a job, at least very well. So she applied and was denied. She had to appeal over the course of 2 years, and finally got back pay, minus a sum paid to her advocate, in 2009.
At least NOT very well . . .
Mr. Heard should have run for senator from PA. He would have Been shoe-in.
He should have applied for ADHD or a speech delay.
Welcome to the socialist paradise of Washington State! The new game here is to work just long enough so that you can collect benefits again. That takes 680 hours, at least some of those hours have had to have been worked in Washington State. Then if you have made a PIA out of yourself by calling in sick excessively, etc. your employer can be easily convinced to “lay you off”. Then you can collect the highest unemployment benefits in the country for a minimum of 6 months. During the pandemic this was extended to 9 months.
I was going to ask if it is worth the trouble hiring a lawyer to fight them.
Thankfully, I was approved after about 8 months since I sent my service medical records from the V.A. that was proof of sciatic nerve damage while on duty.
I DID have to go to an outside doctor and get examined and evaluated though.
The back-pay was how I was able to afford this laptop :P
Going to an outside doctor must suck in January....
My main issue with this is that this isn’t welfare/EBT/SNAP; we have money withheld from every paycheck for SS, disability, and unemployment, yet when the gubmint that collects it is asked to give some back, there is much more resistance than there is to the worthless parasites who never works/contributes and just collect (for rent, food, cash benefit, free cellphone - EVERYTHING).
It is no accident that our society is segregated along these economic lines (rather than ethnic), and there is no way to change that - the makers will always recoil from the takers, to protect their assets and the economic future of their offspring.
The past work requirements are low and those who get the magic ticket generally end up with far more than they ever put into the system. That makes it about as secure and self-supporting as AlGore’s lockbox.
But they’ve got people brainwashed to think that anything to do with SS or Medicare is “earned”.
The only nut sorter I’ve ever heard of is Kamala Harris.
He could also get good work under Secretary Buttigieg.
I have some family members who retired in their 40s at full SSA FRA due to "disability." They then spend many of their days at the gym, at the beach or just lounging around. They can do other work but they applied for "disability" and got it.
Meanwhile, I've been working since I was 16 and need to go until I am 67 before I get my full FRA benefits. Over a half century of work for me because I am not the type that files for disability because my knees ache.
As I understand it you are limited by your contributions (and employee match); this rule was tossed in some areas where unemployment remained high.
I always recalled unemployment as something that “ran out”.
Unemployment is generally limited in term and subject to all sorts of state-specific laws on eligibility and compensation levels.
As I’ve always understood it, once you slither onto the SS disability gravy train you can ride it forever if your “disability” is considered permanent.
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