Since I'm retired, I sometimes watch a bit of daytime tv. Shows like Maury and Springer are full of adverts from attorneys soliciting SSDI claims. It's lucrative for them to take these cases forward.
"You've paid into this program your entire working life, now it's time to get the benefits you are owed"
Once you're on SSDI, I believe you are automatically eligible for food stamps and Medicaid. If you're on food stamps, you get an Obamaphone.
I’m afraid you are right...once on SSDI you can get all the goooodies.
I’m retired and had to pay over $1000 in taxes to the IRS, yet someone I know has 6 kids and diden’t pay squat in taxes and yet gets a check somewhere in the neighborhood of $6000 back from the government?
Times are changing.
False. Both Food Stamps and Medicaid are income related. For that matter so is SSI which is not disability.
I knew someone who sued to get on SSDI. The incentive was that she got a lump sum going back to the date of the injury on top of the monthly stipend. It was right after she got herself a diagnosis through a totally different route for adult ADD, which likely played into the disabled label. This is a well-educated person whose former employment was as a *diversity officer*. She is also an out lesbian.
The physical injury had resulted in a boutonniere deformity on one pinky finger and was the only physical problem. The entire process took her a year or so and the back payment was for 4-5 years.
You have SSDI confused with SSI. You are not automatically eligible for Medicaid on SSDI. You are eligible for Medicare. You might be eligible for Food Stamps if you are on SSDI but it is not a given.