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Back in the 1970’s I worked for Social Security as “benefit authorizer” which is the position that implements routine changes to ongoing claims or new decisions made by a higher level “claims adjuster.”

The most common disability situations I would see were back pain and and bad knees.

Both of these are highly correlated to obesity and obese women in their late 40’s anf 50’s were basically so fat that their knees were breaking down and unable to allow mobility for a 40 hour work week even in an office setting (supposedly unable to get to all levels of the file cabinet and back and forth to the file cabinet).

Maybe it's the way women are built, but their knees seem to be more vulnerable to malfunction when they are obese.

These days these obese folks seem to have diabetes as well.

At age 50 I got to see the SSDI situation from the other side as a combination of neurological symptoms, including the mystery illness, ME/CFS and severe orthostatic intolerance (inability to sit for long without blood loss to the brain requiring a lie-down) rendered me unemployable.

It took two years with a lawyer to receive retroactive SSDI payments back 18 months with the lawyer taking a statutory cut from the back payment.