Not everyone games the system, but enough do to create a lot of ill will towards it. I know a real dead beat, myself. What I don't know is whether he's 1 in 100, 1 in 10, or 1 in 2. My sincere best wishes for your husbands comfort and improvement.
“I know a real dead beat, myself. What I don’t know is whether he’s 1 in 100, 1 in 10, or 1 in 2.”
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Probably not even 1 in 100, maybe 1 in 500. It really is not easy to get SS disability. There are a lot of fairy tales circulated about it, I have heard stories of people getting disability because of alcoholism or drug addiction but if you go the SS website it will tell you that alcoholism or drug addiction is an automatic DISQUALIFIER. Yet some people will SWEAR that they know someone who just walked in and said they were a drug addict and got disability approval on the spot. There is a certain urban legend quality to the whole subject.