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...
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What county in what state please, I live in South Carolina and it took my wife twelve years to get approved and then they gave her only five years retroactive out of the twelve and she didn’t file until doctors had been telling her for fifteen years that she should not be trying to work. The goal here seems to be to drag the applicant around until they either give up or die.
As I mentioned previously I worked for a short time as a claims rep for SS. The system seemed to be set up to approve as few as possible. Almost no one was approved the first time. Then they filed an appeal. Now on appeal there were so few approved that it was basically just a way of dragging it out.
Nearly every one who was approved was done so at the administrative judge level. Apparently they wanted as many as possible to drop out. Those who kept at it until they got to a judge actually had a pretty good chance at that level. Unfortunately many people who actually were disabled just gave up before reaching that stage.