Posted on 05/15/2006 6:40:27 AM PDT by Chickensoup
I am trying to start a discussion and do research on the misuse of SSDI. Many providers are watching many people use disability in the Mental Health and orthpedic fields have a picnic at taxpayer expense. SSDI is funded, if I understand, from Social security payments and are an enormous drain on the system.
This is a system that usues privacy rights to prevent any taxpayer oversight.
If you have experience as a provider or worker in the healthcare system, or have other expertise I would be interested in discussing your experie3nce either on the forum or through Freepmail. There is a book or major article in this somewhere.
A teenager that lived across the street in my old neighborhood was getting "disability checks" because he was supposed to have been brain damaged from huffing gasoline fumes to get high. Last I saw him he was riding his motorcycle to buy a new video game for his Playstation he bought with his checks............I don't know if this is the same thing as your discussion........
In Massachusetts they found clusters of neighborhoods that had a high frequency of this.
Uh huh, I not only have knowledge of SSDI being abused I believe that the entire program was set up to be abused.
Howie Carr,as I suspect you know,refers to them as "crazy checks"
Unfortunately, the same bureaucratic garbage that results in ineligible people getting SSDI, also results in eligible people not getting it. My half sister has full-blown schizophrenia, and has been living in a makeshift tent near the Texas-Mexico border for decades. At one point she insisted she couldn't leave because she was guarding the border. My father has tried repeatedly to get her forced into treatment, to no avail. After much effort, he did persuade Texas authorities to haul her in for a forced psych exam, so an official diagnosis would be on the record.
After the obvious diagnosis was made (which it was quite illegal for the court to even tell my father), he figured he could get her on SSDI, and get her into some sort of residential treatment situation. Nope, SS is a federal program, and due to her "privacy rights", the state of Texas cannot divulge her diagnosis to the federal government. And of course there are no federal authorities with the inclination or authority to haul her in for another psych exam, until such time as she gets caught committing a federal crime. And of course she won't voluntarily divulge the information to the federal government, because she believes there's nothing wrong with her (except for the tracking devices that "they" planted inside her head, which "go off" when she passes through metal detectors, meaning she can no longer enter the post office to pick up mail from my father).
The people who invented and maintain this insane system should be first in line to get locked up in mental hospitals.
Seen this and similar situations. This is the true abuse of the mentally ill.
This is exactly what I am looking for. Systematic abuse of SSDI. It is bleeding this country dry.
It is called "white welfare" although recently many countries use it.
It also supports a level of bottomfeeding suck off the system lawyers who martial cased through the SSDI system.
A few years ago, 60 Minutes or 20/20 or one of those magzine shows did a segment on the "crazy checks" that a lot of "underpivileged " (read welfare types) were getting by having their young children "act crazy" and qualify for the SSDI "free" money. You could use that as a part of your study........
I thought about commenting along the lines of "at least someone is doing it!" But decided that comment might be offensive, so if it is I apologize.
Thanks.
Evidently it didnt go anywhere.
I have seen parents plotting their children's SSDI future.
Golly it's quiet here in chat.
No, I have a sense of humor. It IS funny. Too bad she's ineffective. Personally, I suspect (and hope) that she got this notion from some self-styled minutemen types who actually WERE guarding the border, and convinced her she needed to "stay at her post" so she'd stop tagging along with them.
My heart goes out to you and your family.
There are so many in true need when those who are slurping the system need a good kick in the butt.
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