Oh yeah I just could not wait to get off my $$ per hour job and go on SSDI, where I could be raking it in. I also had private disability insurance from my old job but the private company forced me to go on SSDI. They (private company) pick up the difference between my SSDI and what I was entitled to under their policy.
And I spent 2 years fighting with SS, and even the doctors who they sent me to said I permanently disabled. So I can tell you getting SSDI is not a walk in the park.
Don’t forget I am one of the taxpayers who paid into the system for many years.
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.
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.