I don’t understand how so many are able to get on disability. Where I live I understand it is nearly impossible to get it when people are actually disabled. I was told by a doctor’s wife that she has a family member in a wheel chair and cannot get disability. I hear doctors do not want to do the paperwork, etc. It must be easier in other places.
It’s about the lawyers.
The feds are in bed with these sleazy disability chaser firms. Just watch the ads on Daytime TV.
The deal is the lawyers take a third or more of the benefit from the time of application until the disability is approved and granted. The feds will decline you at least once, and this is the scam that makes it worth the time for the lawyers. Once approved by the feds, the clock stops and the lawyer extracts their fees. I have heard the feds recently are taking as much as two years — do the math on how the longer it takes is beneficial only to the lawyer involved.
What profession are the majority of lawmakers in? Lawyers.
“I don’t understand how so many are able to get on disability...”
Here’s a clue. Do you live in a Blue state or a Red State?
How people can get on so easy just because they have run out of unemployment is beyond me. They're just ruining the system for those of us who actually NEED it.
And on top of this there's another darker side. Everyone who's on SS disability, is AUTOMAGICALLY enrolled in Medicare as well so it's a double whammy for the fed budget and the working people who have to pay.
No wonder the entire fed system is going to come down around our heads.
My assessment tells me that the SS denies most claims outright as a rule. Here, comes the next step in the process. A multitude of disability claim lawyers who, for a fee, will push you claim through and get it to adjudication. It can take a couple three years, but it’s a lifetime check. A whole industry aimed at putting leeches on the dole...it just takes enough cash to follow through with a shyster lawyer and his Bahamian (or similar) doctor consultant.
I suspect that the Social Security Administration has been directed to be quite liberal in allowing people to get on this dole for disability benefits. Every new disability recipient is highly likely to be an 0bama voter, doncha know? The worse part is, once on SSDI, people are unlikely to ever come off the benefits.
This is what community organizers do. Get folks on the government teet.
Thus it is with EVERY policy of the left. They'll claim they intend to help people, but the very people they claim they are helping get excluded while the freeloaders take advantage of the system to live at the expense of others.
Everything about the left is "calling evil good and good evil".