And 99% of those with a mental disability are liberals.
me, just keep working, bad knees, bad back and all....what a fool...
SSI is known as “crazy money” since one must “act crazy” to receive it. Oftentimes several people in the same household, adults and children, collect SSI checks. Easy-to-fake learning, behavioral, and mental disorders are the most common “disabilities,” especially among children, who comprise 55 percent of all cases. More than half who go on SSI as a child, requalify as adults. SSI recipients are not required to get treatment for their or their children's disabilities. No requalification can be good since it can be harmful for kids to take drugs for fake or exaggerated symptoms. The SSI program for children is rapidly expanding, with the biggest increase among kids with mental, behavioral and learning disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), speech delays, autism and bipolar disorder.
They call it “crazy money” in the hood because all you have to d is act crazy to qualify for it.
The crazy money scam is draining money from the Social Security disability fund to the extent that people for whom the disability programs were originally set up to protect i.e. people with actual true disabilities such a cerebral palsy, blindness, paralysis, serious on the job injury, ect are being kicked to the curb and frozen out of the SS disability system by the aggressive leeches faking mental disability
Yes, and their mental disability is that they are allergic to work.
Well, I can’t argue with the numbers for D.C.
But why are we paying them Senator and Representative pay too?
I knew two sober alcoholics who were on SSI-————because they were alcoholics. I kid you not.
They were attending a community college and seemed okay to me.
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Another meaningless fake statistic, I'm guessing.
-PJ
All the people I know “on the Disability” work under the table.
It’s a real racket now. They know how to play the system. In the town I lived in before, came across a few who were getting “mental” disability checks. All were much younger than I am, healthy and strong, physically would be able to work and would be just fine if they would quit smoking so much pot. One of them even did meth when she had the extra cash. In their sober state, not a thing wrong with them, normal and sane as anyone else.
Opened my eyes to the “disability” game. Shame. No telling how many times this plays out across the U.S. Seems like it has affected an entire generation...and now their kids also.
Me no draw disability but I defnotly got s adbaditude. Last 6 years worth.
Mental disorders and Washington D.C. Go together like fish and water.
I am a conservative with a mental disorder who went on social security disability 25 years ago. At the risk of people not understanding why I went on and accusing me of being lazy and trying to milk the system I thought I could comment on this to give a perspective. I have gotten off disability 3 times since then and have tried to work each time getting sick and working on average 9 months each time . generaly there is about a two year wait on paperwork with any mental disability because it is the easiest one for some one to fake that being the reason for such a high percentage of people claiming that they have a mood disorder. When I was put on social security disability I was 24 I never filed out any paper work at the time the psychiatric hospital did all of that. one of the first thing I noticed when I got out of the hospital was that if someone learned I was on social security disability and they were of shady characters they would question me assuming I was running a scam trying to figure out how to do it themselves. the other thing I found out was how many people on social security disability were working under the table and not reporting to the government that they were doing it. I would not be surprised if more then half of those collecting a ssdi check were earning a substantial amount of money under the table and not reporting it. about 3 or 4 years after I went on social security disability I had recovered enough to try and seek work because I had not worked in years and the last time I worked I had been fired with cause. I was not going to be able to get anything but entry level work. I realized that and felt I needed to work just to have some self respect. after getting work I was able to keep the job about 9 months before the stress got to me and I was hospitalized. this all corresponded with me losing my ssdi because I was working and getting a paycheck. when I got out of the hospital I was fortunate in that I did not loose my job but I was back to where I was when I was hospitalized the first time. I lasted another three months and was sick again this time I quite in a manic melt down. at that point my life spiraled out of control and I had to reapply for disability. this time rather then getting it with in 6 months it was about a year for the paper work. it was at this time I learned about lawyers taking on ssdi cases and processing them. one of the biggest problems in the ssdi program is that a lawyer can get a big pay out for doing nothing but fileing the paperwork on a claim. this has caused a whole bunch of shady lawyers to get involved with filling social security disability claims. the lawyer get 1/3 of what ever the pay out is on a contingency fee basis when a claim is made of disability finally is excepted. because of this a lot of claims are being processed by lawyers that no there clients are lying to them but the pay out is real good when they pay out with a minimal of work. Basicaly right now it is taking about 2 years t6o process a claim that makes it so that when claim is paid the lawyer involved gets about 5-6 thousand dollars for the work he has done on the case. the type of work most times he is taking this payout for is the type a good paralegal could fill out. there is almost never any court house time involved . one of the best ways they could lower the amount of people making a claim of mental disability is to just have it a flat fee for the lawyer based on how much paperwork he did and whether there was any face to face court house in front of a judge time. another thing that would impact the amount of claims is to not allow law offices to advertise there services over television instead have the lawyers who are being paid on a contingency supply there names to the local social security office to hand out when asking for help with the application. the other thing that needs to be done is prosecuting those that scam the system.
I used to work in an ER in Pocatello, ID. Almost every self-identified lesbian who came in for routine care (because they were too lazy to get a primary care provider) were ALL on disability. Usually they were diagnosed with “bi-polar disorder” which is NOT much of a disorder for most people if they take the correct meds. I started asking them who had diagnosed them so that they could get SSI and they had ALL been to a certain female nurse practitioner in the community. Her sexual identity remains a mystery but I can guess...
More proof, as if any is needed, that SSI is mostly a SCAM! Crazy money my arse!
What’s the percentage in D.C. if you don’t count Congress?
It is possible to fake or trump up both mental illness and musculoskeletal disease; and it is possible as well to extend disability benefits well beyond the period that someone would need to get back to work.
Yet among adults of working age by far the two most empirically important disabling conditions in the US and in every other country in the world that can measure these things are mental illnesses and musculoskelatal disease. Together they account for more than half of all chronic illnesses through age 45, and thereafter they remain dominant even as heart and kidney diseases, cancer, and so forth begin to rise faster.
I am all in favor of putting stricter controls into these benefits and closer oversight. But it is a mistake that conservatives often make to call those with mental illnesses crazy, fakers, lazy, etc. It is a mistake to claim that those who have bipolar, schizophrenia, psychoses, etc are empirically insignificant, because in fact their numbers are huge and their conditions more than other conditions have ripple effects on loved ones, co-workers, etc. It is a mistake not to have compassion when compassion is so obviously needed and appreciated.
Please, just be careful in how you think and write about those who have these illnesses. Perhaps you might ask yourselves, would you write such things about people who are mentally retarded? Autistic? With dementia? Heart disease?
Every time I read an article about disability benefits, I think of all the FReeper folks who have admitted that they’re on disability and “can’t work”, yet they can sit around all day on their computers posting articles and comments. Funny, they never show up on these threads about disability.