Don’t want to work? Get a lawyer (who’ll get you a ‘doctor’) and claim “anxiety, carpal, back pain, etc. - all those symptoms that are too hard to medically disprove”.
For somebody over 50 who just don’t want to work out the 16 more years it’s worth giving up a few SSDI checks to the lawyer to get a decade’s worth of payments.
I know that when I used to get those SS statements, the SSDI payment for permanent disability was higher than any other payment.
A few years ago I spent about 4 hours or so researching just exactly what SSDI and SSI are. I found out that SSA manages both, but SSI comes out of the general fund. At that time, SSA and SSI accounted for over one quarter of everything SSA doled out. That was before Obama - I’d guess that’s higher now.
This bunch of 4 million looks to have “scammed” about $4,000 each. Not chump change, but not huge fraud/waste over a ten year period.
Claim Chronic Fatigue syndrome or back pain. I know a few. Scammers.