There are four or five stages. A lot of those 80,000 could have been in the system for two years or more before they got their first check.
There are a few freepers who will tell you they or their spouses have been fighting for two years or more. You said “They WERE being turned down but not anymore”. That’s just not fatual. And yes, 90% of FIRST TIME applicants are turned down. And if that works out to a million a month applying, then so be it. So many people are applying that SS is tigtening up.
One way they’ve tightened up is it used to be that if you can’t do the job you’ve been doing for the last nine years, you qualify. Then they changed it to if you’re over 55 and can’t do the job you used to have, you’re qualified. Now they changed it to if you can sit a desk and answer the phone you’re not qualified.
I know a lawyer who’s done this for over 20 years. He said he’s convinced SS is so backed up that they’re automatically turning down first time applicants. He no longer takes a client unless HE’S convinced the applicant is disabled.
These law commercials you see running? Lawyers only work on cases that have been rejected the first time because they get a percentage of back pay. There is no back pay if they’re approved on the first try. That means a lot of people are getting turned down.
As for not having to work to get welfare, that has nothing to do with SS disability.
“That’s just not fatual. And yes, 90% of FIRST TIME applicants are turned down. And if that works out to a million a month applying, then so be it. “
I can’t help it if you appear to be bad with math and don’t like what YOUR stat shows, that about a million a month apply for disability. The number that 80,000+ a month are getting disability is a fact. If you claim 90% are turned down on first try, it doesn’t matter when they finally get approved, 80,000+ a month are getting approved and that means at least about a million a month are applying.
“That’s just not fatual. And yes, 90% of FIRST TIME applicants are turned down. And if that works out to a million a month applying, then so be it. “
I can’t help it if you appear to be bad with math and don’t like what YOUR stat shows, that about a million a month apply for disability. The number that 80,000+ a month are getting disability is a fact. If you claim 90% are turned down on first try, it doesn’t matter when they finally get approved, 80,000+ a month are getting approved and that means at least about a million a month are applying.