[napscoordinator]

Just start over. Stop all disability payments and give it to those who REALLY are disabled. No more COPD, back problems and that crap. Give it to people with general real live disabilities and that means people with extremely low IQs and quadriplegics. Absolutely none for asthma and the new hip Autistic baloney. If we do that then we are good to go for quite a while. Food stamps only are used for fruits, vegetables, and fish and chicken, milk, bread and eggs. That is it. I really should run for President. I would fix this country in about five minutes.

[jazusamo]

You’re right, disability SS has become a joke and action has got to be taken to limit it to the truly disabled.

[dforest]

If you remember, Obama admin was putting people on disability who couldn’t get unemployment 5 years ago. Many of these people had mickey mouse reasons, but were getting disability even though they are not disabled.

The best way to fix this is for all states to to an anyalisis of people getting disability. Call them in for a retest. Start wih those under 45. I bet you could find a slew of fakers. Same with food stamps. Some got them a long time ago when they may have had a real problem, but that problem disappeared years ago and they are still getting free food.

[SaraJohnson]

There is a lot of fraud in SS disability. You don’t have to name diseases...a lot is just fake.

[Graybeard58]

I really should run for President. I would fix this country in about five minutes.

You got my vote.

[palmer]

The neighborhood sex offender (violent pedophile) is on SSDI. He drove a truck, had an accident and got "brain damage". So he can't drive anymore and had to go on disability and complained about it taking too long. Now he drives around and tries to scam people. E.g. offered to sell his house with no intention of selling it. Probably looking for earnest money (didn't get far with me).

In cases like that the problem is not uniquely an SSDI fraud problem. The problem is nobody has shot him dead.

[fatnotlazy]

I'm on SS disability plus I collect a small amount from a disability policy my last employer had. The insurance company checks up on me regularly. I used to have this multi-page report to fill out partially. Then the report would go to my doctors for their input. Now a company representative just talks to me by phone. The company will, if warranted, send me to a doctor it chooses if it looks like I might not be as disabled as I claim.

I can't understand why SS doesn't do the same thing. When I signed up, I was told I may be sent to a doctor periodically. It's been 7 years. Still haven't seen a doctor and no one has contacted me to see if I'm still disabled.

If SS really cared about fraud, it wound do a better job of checking up on its beneficiaries But in this administration, fraud is actively encouraged