We had a couple in their 50s here who got in a dispute with a neighbor and during the course of it, someone mentioned that they both lived on disability. They were both former schoolteachers who had lived here about 5 years, and did nothing but get into disputes with the city or with their neighbors for “disturbing their peace.”
However, in the course of this particular dispute, it emerged that they jogged on the beach every day, had a sailboat and sailed it with no problem, traveled all over the world, etc. They immediately announced that their disabilities were not visible, but I think they blew it, because the last I heard of them, an investigation had been opened. I sure hope they get the max, have to repay every dime and even go to jail.
There are people who actually need assistance, and these self-obsessed, unscrupulous jerks are essentially taking money from the people who need it.
“There are people who actually need assistance, and these self-obsessed, unscrupulous jerks are essentially taking money from the people who need it.”
Unfortunately it is to the advantage of the current administration to expand the rolls of the disabled geometrically. It makes people dependent so they vote Democrat. It also takes them out of the unemployment statistics. If they are collecting disability they aren’t reported as unemployed so the unemployment rate goes down. This is a huge welfare boondoggle positioned as disability and is driving the social security to insolvency quicker than it would go otherwise. No doubt the ultimate goal here is to get to means testing social security quicker so those who have paid in for 30-40 years and saved will not get benefits and those who have developed disabilities at an early age and not paid in will get full benefits.
Isn’t socialism great!