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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Understood; there is no “clock” on some disability and all Social Security. While disability fraud is very common, my problem is the reluctance to give unemployment benefits.
No. It isn't. All a lawyer will do is collect 25% of whatever retro pay you get, up to the $6000 maximum.
SS layers are parasites.
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