This is one area in which I think there is some misinformation. When I first graduated from college, I worked for a year as a claims rep for Social Security.
Social Security disability is one of the hardest to qualify for of any. I think something like 90 percent are turned down initially and not all that many qualify eventually.
And many of us with a disability cannot and will not qualify because of the leeches. They need to reform the rolls, and ‘obesity’ shouldn’t be a disability.
If I could fix myself, you should bet that I would, but I don’t have an option there. I have to deal with it.
I don't have much experience with this, but it seems there is a whole industry out there that helps people game the system.
http://www.disabilitysecrets.com/how-do-you-qualify-medically-for-disability.html
I don't have much experience with this, but it seems there is a whole industry out there that helps people game the system.
http://www.disabilitysecrets.com/how-do-you-qualify-medically-for-disability.html
I think you are wrong. Ask any FP how many people we see on disability is really disabled. I could tell horror stories. My whole group does not lift one finger to “help” people get disability. How is your back feeling today???
I worked for an attorney who did disability. It isn’t as easy as some people think. Also, my husband is on disability now because of a horrible head-on collision where cops were chasing a guy and the guy hit my husband head-on doing about 85 mph. He’s in a wheelchair though he can use a walker on a limited basis. He is in constant, severe pain and always will be. He was denied the first time but approved the second. I hope those who think everyone is “gaming the system” never find themselves in the situation of needing disability.
Many moons ago I had just graduated college and worked as an SSI claims rep for a year. Talk about disheartening and disgusting. Perfectly healthy people filing for disability 18 yrs. coming in and saying, “my back hurts” or “I got bad nerves”...
If I could disqualify them on any income or any other technicality besides their medical condition I would. Once the claim went to the Dept. of Determinations in our state it was out of our hands.
And if a boyfriend/husband got it you could bet the house payment the girlfriend/wife would be in there within six months with the same aliments, just like clockwork.
Some twenty years ago the district I worked in distributed nearly $7 million dollars each 1st of the month, that was five counties. The district manager and region managers at the time decided that we were not getting enough people in the office filing for benefits so they began an advertising campaign which just floored me. I gave notice and decided I was going back to graduate school, I wasn’t doing this for the rest of my life.
The current county I like in according to the last census has approx. 30,000 people, of which 10,000 are on some form of disability, a third of the county disabled! Unreal...
Social Security disability is one of the hardest to qualify for of any. I think something like 90 percent are turned down initially and not all that many qualify eventually.
I agree that most people are turned down initially. Now most people get attorneys and by third or fourth try they are in. One gets paid back to the initial application, so there is a big chunck that is paid out. The lawyer gets a big piece of it.
“This is one area in which I think there is some misinformation.”
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That is quite an understatement! There is a mountain of misinformation, there seem to be a large number of Freepers who think it is very simple to get disability without being disabled. Where I live it is the opposite, it is EXTREMELY difficult to get SS disability even though you really are disabled. My wife had doctors telling her she shouldn’t be working for fifteen years before she ever applied for disability and then she fought the system for twelve more years and appealed over and over again until she finally got approved for benefits retroactive for five years, meaning she didn’t get a penny for seven years out of the twelve she spent appealing her case. The whole story is disgraceful, it would make a two hour movie. The goal seems to be to drag a person through the muck until they finally either give up and stop appealing or die from whatever is wrong with them. It is far from being an easy way to get a free ride as some seem to think.