Article by NPR on the rise of disability claims.
Article by NPR on the rise of disability claims.
Rise in disability fraud is more like it. So many Social Security lawyer scammers on TV now it’s ridiculous.
Amazing how NPR manages to miss the real story/cause and effect.
The problem here...is that disability payments weren’t built to this standard in the system. We’d have to take another three-to-five percent of a guy’s salary....to make this work in the next forty years forward. But the question is....where is the line for this?
This reminds me of my Air Force days, and a guy who played on the base basketball team for three years. He’d had various aches and pains, twisted muscles, and at least two operations by the fourth year. Somewhere by age twenty-eight, he was declared disabled and given a discharge from the Air Force...with full disability (100 percent). All of this...from sports. We all shook our heads over this, but you can’t stop these kind of actions.
I would like to see the racial and educational breakdown of the people on disability.
Well... I have a Master’s degree and I’m on my feet all day. I teach middle school and I rarely sit down. I’m at the front of the room either guiding the reading, writing on the board, showing a movie — but I’m one of those irritating types who pauses it frequently to point things out — so I really just do not sit down. I also have horrible lower back pain and have since I was a teenager. You just suck it up and keep going. It helps not to stand still.
My wife was in collections, helping people repay the disability insurance company when they received their first lump-sum check from the government. Her job was the only one actually generating revenue, and the idiot woman did not value it, so they lost the contract with the insurance company.
The law firm is going under now, and it looks like the captain of industry is about to be prosecuted by the Feds. The only reason, of course, is because she is not one of Eric Holder's people. If she were, any crimes would be A-OK.
“Crazy Checks”, money paid for mental disorders. BTW, if you can get your little bastard diagnosed as disabled, mamma be getting an additional check from Obama.
And I get to tolerate 'California is a welfare case' posts while Californians FUND this kind of largesse.
BTW, the biggies are obviously back pain and mental illness, both of which are easily faked.
“History has judged Clinton’s welfare reform a big success.”
Only if history is being written by brain dead liberal jackasses with no regard whatsoever for the facts. Clintoons “ending of welfare” reforms are in fact the MAJOR cause of the mess we are in. His ‘ending’ meant spreading it over 80 government programs and hiding the true cost.
I suggest you go to this website and start with this article if you want the actual truth. (DO NOT send me any private e-mails about wanting your monitor or keyboard replaced - if you can’t deal with finding out how badly we are getting screwed, don’t click below!)
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2012/10/welfare-is-at-an-all-time-high
and I felt uncomfortable about taking disability for injuries related to military service.
At the mill.
At the plant.
At the factory.
At the farm.
At the mine.
At the jobsite.
See the common denominator?
Didn't think so.
What to do with millions of displaced workers? You can only hide and placate so many of them. It's also getting much harder to hide the workers and countries of origin that displaced these Americans.
It's also going to get more difficult to convince Americans to continue to federally subsidize cheap foreign labor and profiteering at the expense of national sovereignty.
Why is this so “startling”? Its yet another way for lazy people to live off the public teat. The government winks and nods and finds people disabled who aren’t and the Welfare State expands. I have one in my own family. He’s been “disbled” for 10 years yet for the life of me I can’t figure out why he can’t do a job that doesn’t involve heavy manual labor. He doesn’t even try to look for work and has zero shame in spending his life collecting a government check. I get so angry I can’t go to certain family functions where I will have to be around him for a long time.
How about someone starts going after these dirty doctors that seem to think they are some kind of modern-day Robin Hoods handing out sick notes and signing disability forms without any regard for the consequences to everyone concerned. Like they are some kind of gods- so let it be written, so let it be done! I knew a guy (licensed professional) who had a friend who happened to be a doctor. Every time he got sick of work and wanted a vacation, he would somehow hurt his back or knee and get 3 months of disability by just having him sign a form. WE had a name for it, too- the ‘Golden Ticket’. He would come into work waving that thing in the air like a lottery ticket with a big smile on his face and say ‘see you in three months’! then we would have to hear about how he took his family to Disney World while we all suffered and picked up the slack.
my sister-in-law works for a food bank and sees lots of people coming in for help. She is required to help them or show them where they can get help.
She says lots of them are poor and down to their last meal. Others have full grown childern living with them who “can’t” work because of some so-called disability (bi-polar, high blood pressure, headaches, back aches) all sots of excuses for not getting a job. She hates these frauds but can do nothing about it.
Excellent article. Bump!
For those who have not been watching, disability is the new unemployment benefit.
As a volunteer triage interviewer at a local food/clothing bank, I see this all the time. As soon as the unemployment benefits get close to running out, the taker contacts a disability lawyer about getting their lifetime suck on the government teat.
Much has been made of the explosion in food stamps. Not much has been said about the corresponding explosion in disability checks. Food stamps are hard, you must recertify every six months. Disability is easy, once you qualify you’re good for life.
Massive, massive fraud. And we pay through the nose for it. Lots of fraud in food stamps too, but that’s another topic.
Another quick thought: notice the rapid increase in back pain as a reason for disability? That’s because back pain cannot be disproved. And the disability lawyers know that.
I tried after I broke my spine, I didn’t work while I raised my children just started back and Obama’s administration caused me to lose my job. Not enough current years working to qualify. need 5 consecutive laid off after 3.5 years. I am forced to work. my husband is disabled nervous breakdown, and still waiting to be qualified, his employment fired him for poor work performance after returning from disability leave. shit happens. I wish I could qualify and work part time cause no one wants to hire someone over 50.
There is a simple solution to turn this around. If you are UNFIT TO WORK, you are UNFIT TO DRIVE. Go on disability and have your drivers license pulled. Get caught driving and automatically lose your benefits.
If you are in such pain that you cannot work, we don’t want you behind the wheel of a car. If your ADD or ADHD medicine keeps you from working, then you are also incapable of operating a vehicle. How many of these scammers would be willing to give up their freedom to drive for a check?
Getting them off the roads would make commuting for people going to work easier. It would lessen the wear and tear on roads being paid for by hard working taxpayers. Safer roads and cleaner air are benefits along with limiting drug dealing to only the neighbourhoods they could walk to. Those getting a welfare check should also be precluded from driving. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
good post
the administration is buying votes. everybody “needs” a government check. Even children with learning disabilities can now get a government check. It’s disgusting and makes me hopeless.