I have to wonder if those currently transitioning from unemployment (which you have to be able to work to collect?) to disability are waiting anywhere near that long?
You have to have worked to collect Social Security Disability too. Way too many people on it who aren't disabled and those who are truly disabled have a hard time getting it.
Unemployment is a whole other subject but that gravy train is coming to an end rapidly. December, for hundreds of thousands.
See my previous post up thread.
My experience is that the process of getting on DI takes about two years on average. And if you don’t have a lawyer you stand little to no chance of getting the benefit.
How the lawyer gets paid is interesting: At the time you apply for DI, an account is set up for you. When you get on DI, assuming you do, lots of folks do not, back payments are made to you. This can be thousands of dollars.
The lawyer’s fee is taken from the back payments. The fee is capped, I believe, at $2500.
A six month wait is nothing for a decades-long benefit.
“I have to wonder if those currently transitioning from unemployment (which you have to be able to work to collect?) to disability are waiting anywhere near that long?”
I doubt it. They seem to be trying to add as much debt as possible as quickly as possible. How much more apparent does it have to get for people to wake up? Obama is purposely destroying this country so the one worlders can take over. Think UN and how much he has already ceded to them. We can only pray our way out of this mess for we are up against some serious evil.
Unless you are mentally ill, druggie, pot head, booze addict you can expect a FOUR year wait and a lawyer. My advice to those who really need it is get the lawyer first!
I had a man in my Sunday School class on the heart transplant list, took him 4 years and a lawyer to get his disability. We at the church helped keep his family afloat and his wife went to work. A year later he had his transplant, when cleared to go back to work, a very different kind than he had, but work non the less, he went off disability.
Then you have those who are marginally Downs, they can’t really work, but can take care of themselves with supervision and a constant routine. I have a good friend like this, sweetness 40 year old 14 year old in the world. She could not work if she wanted to.
Those getting disability for drugs, booze, supposed mental illness etc should not be getting it, but there are truly people who do need it. This man was one of them, and he did the correct thing and got off as soon as he was cleared to go back to work. Lisa will never be able to work, not only is she Downs, but has other health issues as well, and she just lost her primary care giver her mom, now she is in a group home that over sees that she is safe and takes her meds when due or she would forget them.
I developed a blood clot in my thigh in 2006. I had to argue with my doc, but he got me an ultrasound set up at a clinic in the big town. The tech asked me if I was working (yes) and told me he saw a lot of people who came in practically begging him to find something wrong with them so they could get on disability. When he got done with the test he told me I had a 14” long blood clot in my leg. (no kidding? that explains this PAIN). I got 2 weeks off while I self administered Heparin shots in my midsection (no insurance).
I also know someone who is deaf that has been trying to get on it now for 4 years. Nada. They have been struggling to find work. Nada. But the girlfriend of a guy I know waltzed through to get hers. She told me all she did was “try” to kill herself. There is nothing wrong with her that a swift kick in the *** wouldn’t cure.
I really doubt it.
Like their “master” (Satan), the left takes anything intended for beneficience and turns it upside down so that those who really need it can’t get it, whilst those who are cheating the system have no impediments placed before them.
All “social welfare” programs end up this way.
One thing I’m sure everyone has noticed is the dramatic increase in handicapped spots. This is because every “gamer” and his dog has a handicapped tag, so those who really need to park closer can’t find a spot that isn’t taken up by a gamer. The only way to accomodate this is to increase the number of spots.