Posted on 07/27/2010 12:13:18 PM PDT by Angelus
I would like to add that SSI pays anywhere from $654 to $679 a month to its beneficiaries adding up to about $8,000 a year. And there are no time limits on how long someone can receive benefits.
Also if you are on SSI you automatically get Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Section 8 Housing.
And Your House and Car are excluded as resources by Social Security.
SSI and SSDI are pure insanity.
I made the joke once that he had a lemonade stand, and it took four weeks to establish that no, he didn't, and he earned zero income from such sidewalk jobs.
Yea, what the hell does being a convicted felon have to do with getting disability payments. If the person worked his whole life and then became diabled why would it make any difference if he was convicted of a felony sometime in his lifetime??Lots of convicted felons live a prosperous life working and providing for their families.
Social Security is not sustainable...at all, period, end of story.
My Apologies for any mistakes. I wrote it in a hurry.
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Then you need to slow down and check your work. It is difficult for the reader to consider you a serious thinker when you make such errors. And this was not the only one.
Same here. I’m on it for some issues I’ve been having for the past couple of years and I don’t mind drawing on something I paid into. I also, if I might add, get paid in proportion to the work credits I earned. So it’s not like I am making more than I’m putting in.
You don’t have to have ever worked to receive SSDI. It is a federal welfare program....nothing more, nothing less.
I can no longer do substantial work as an NFL linebacker. I wanna check.
I think that you must have earned sufficient work credit in order to receive SSDI.
It is the SSI that one can get just for being able to get it.
Or it may be just the opposite.
In any event, I know a young lady that is going blind, who has been told she would only be eligible for SSI, since, because of her youth, she had not worked long enough to be eligible for SSDI.
I think that you must be eligible for SS (age notwithstanding) retirement benefits , (sufficient work credits), in order to be eligible for SSDI.
Confusing.
Don’t let your own experience fool you. Just because it was hard for you to get on SSD doesn’t mean it’s hard for others. This fraud-ridden program is set up to put honest, legitimately disabled individuals who have worked all their lives at significant disadvantage to the scam artists and something-for-nothing crowd who know exactly how to game the system using dishonest doctors and lawyers.
Your problem is that you didn’t carefully pre-select your particular disability ahead of time to exactly fit the eligibility criteria. You probably didn’t even get sick or injured on purpose. Then, to compound matters, you probably went to a real doctor with intentions of getting better so you could continue working. The way the game is played, you find the most subjective, politically correct ailments FIRST, then start “manifesting” the exact symptoms on their checklists and find a scam doctor who specializes in confirming it all to SSD.
A well-intentioned and necessary system has been perverted and hijacked. You have my sympathies.
Glad you cleared that up. Most people do not know the difference.You do not receive ssdi if have not worked.Lots of hard working people who have worked and payed into SS find themselves unable to work as they get into thier 50’s and early 60’s. Thay did not have a choice if they wanted to opt out of paying these taxes. And my question to angelus, why did you think it was important to mention that felons are eligible for payments??? Do you have an elitist streak in you that makes you feel you are better than them???
Gee, no shi . . . . er, kidding!!!
I quoted from the article which stated “worked in the past”. But we know how there are loopholes for the dependent class.
When these programs were passed - we were all forced to participate and become *vested*. For all of our working lives, we trusted there was oversight on this SS fund. Of course, we have since learned there is no such TRUST FUND. It has been plundered for votes.
My observations are similar to yours.
Not only is it difficult and it can take years for really disabled folks to get anything, but the benefits ARE watched very closely. I know someone who works occasionally when they are well enough. If they used any medical benefits that particular month and earned income, their SSID is adjusted to pay the medical bills incurred. They were not allowed to work over 18 hours/week and had to get an MD approval for a stool on the job so they could rest, occasionally.
When this person still had children at home, she had a choice each year of food stamps or earned income tax credit. She did not qualify for Section 8 since she liked where she lived and the landlord was not Section 8 approved. If a spouse or a working adult child lives with the disabled person, there is either no or lessened housing assistance. The one time she needed fuel assistance, it took weeks, in the coldest part of the year and in the end, she got 1/2 tank of propane.
The amount of hoops is daunting and the person must be very organized, because paperwork requirements are horrific.
Thank you.
Re your post 7, yes, it is distressing to see posts by supposedly professional authors who make obvious grammatical errors. One would think that the posters might want to look them over first to detect them and adjust accordingly.
See my post #29
I did.
After I had posted.
I'm just a slow poster.
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