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RE: I have not checked recently but the last time I read the rules on disability from the social security website it clearly said that drug or alcohol addiction was an automatic disqualifier. I have had people tell me years ago that the quickest way to get disability was to claim drug addiction but the law said exactly the opposite.

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SOURCE:

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-94-128/html/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-94-128.htm

EXCERPT:

The number of addicts receiving disability benefits has grown
substantially during the last 5 years—from fewer than 100,000 to about
250,000 today. The annual cost of providing benefits to addicts is about
$1.4 billion. The vast majority of addicts receiving disability
benefits are either not in treatment or their treatment status is
unknown. About 100,000 addicts have not been assigned a third-party or
representative payee to manage their benefits. Consequently, the Social
Security Administration (SSA) has no guarantee that these persons are
not using their benefit checks to buy drugs or alcohol. Even in cases
when payees have been assigned, their control over benefit payments is
questionable; most of these payees are friends or relatives. Because
addicts can abuse, threaten, and pressure their payees, GAO believes
that organizations would make better payees for addicts than friends or
relatives. SSA needs to ensure that all disability benefit recipients
are in treatment and that all addicts have a third-party or
representative payee. Also, Congress needs to consider expanding the
treatment requirement to all addicts and restructuring the program to
improve the payoff from treatment.