Oh for gawd’s sakes
Such governmental insanity
The recent Congressional budget deal reached attempts to stave off depletion of the Disability Insurance (DI) trust fund at the end of 2016 by “reallocating” about $150 billion over the next three years from the Social Security Trust Fund (paid into by taxation) to the Disability Insurance Trust Fund (paid out from general fund). This infusion of Social Security revenues should keep the disability insurance program solvent through 2022, at which point we can expect lawmakers to rob Social Security yet again.
ITEM How do non citizens qualify for SS benefits?......
Goes all the way back to WWII....people from war-torn countries could come here, claim “asylum” and collect monthly SS checks.
Illegals glommed onto it.....claiming asylum from central american coutries’ drug wars, persecution, even marital threats......and so on.
ITEM supplemental security income (SSI) program is a needs base disability program that children, or adults that did not pay enough into Social Security to be insured, can receive. The children’s parents have to be under a certain income limit, and the child has to be disabled to receive the benefits.
ITEM -A federal criminal complaint recounts the 20-year saga of a 57-year-old naturalized citizen from Jordan, and his family;
they allegedly scammed tax-paid disability claiming “fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue symptoms,” and “affective disorders” .......
while secreting real estate, vehicles and cash in US and foreign bank accounts.