Many moons ago I had just graduated college and worked as an SSI claims rep for a year. Talk about disheartening and disgusting. Perfectly healthy people filing for disability 18 yrs. coming in and saying, “my back hurts” or “I got bad nerves”...
If I could disqualify them on any income or any other technicality besides their medical condition I would. Once the claim went to the Dept. of Determinations in our state it was out of our hands.
And if a boyfriend/husband got it you could bet the house payment the girlfriend/wife would be in there within six months with the same aliments, just like clockwork.
Some twenty years ago the district I worked in distributed nearly $7 million dollars each 1st of the month, that was five counties. The district manager and region managers at the time decided that we were not getting enough people in the office filing for benefits so they began an advertising campaign which just floored me. I gave notice and decided I was going back to graduate school, I wasn’t doing this for the rest of my life.
The current county I like in according to the last census has approx. 30,000 people, of which 10,000 are on some form of disability, a third of the county disabled! Unreal...
The current county I like in according to the last census has approx. 30,000 people, of which 10,000 are on some form of disability, a third of the county disabled! Unreal...
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What county in what state please, I live in South Carolina and it took my wife twelve years to get approved and then they gave her only five years retroactive out of the twelve and she didn’t file until doctors had been telling her for fifteen years that she should not be trying to work. The goal here seems to be to drag the applicant around until they either give up or die.