Posted on 09/09/2012 6:33:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
Fixed it. They get around better than I do and spend all my tax dollars taking vacations and buying new cars.
Light bulb moment. I know a person who applied for SSI during Bush but was rejected. She hops from one temp job to another so between times she gets unemployment. It's a vicious circle, unemployment runs out, gets a temp job, temp job runs out, gets back on unemployment, rinse and repeat. Out of the blue, last year she was approved for SSI and received tens of thousands of dollars for retroactive payments for her and their now grown kids back to the first application. Now, it's party time for them with new cars, vacations, body piercings and tatoos, and shopping out the wahzoo. Disability, my aunt fanny.
Yeah! . . . . . That's the ticket . . . . . They're . . Uh . . . They're “Shop-a-holics”, they can't help themselves. The American Psychology Association approved Shop-A-Holicism right after they declared homosexuality to be normal.
Not too comforting to know when I can (legitimately) go on SSD in four years, the system will be busted...
Not that it’s necessarily the target — work provides that sense of purpose & accomplishment I’d probably miss, and the 401-K will be there (unless the Feds screw with that).
I have another story:
Female, married 21 years old.
She has managed to bamboozle the state officials into thinking that she is TOO STUPID to hold a job. IF she manages to continue fooling them for for 3 years total, she will stay on such ‘disability’ until she turns 65 & goes onto soc sec. Since she has BARELY worked in her entire life (so far), she will have the minimum social security.
She is currently getting paid $2100 a month. That is equivilant to $12.13 per hour, 40 hours a week. Where I live, $12.00 is a decent job, particularly for anyone with minimum skills.
Because I don’t know how close to 22 she is, let’s do some math:
Consider that she is 22 & will have such disability payments until she is 65. That equals 43 years. 43 years times 12 months equals 516 months of payments.
Consider that the value of those payments doesn’t even get a single ‘cost of living’ increase.
516 payments times $2100 per month equals $1,083,600. ONE MILLION, Eighty Three Thousand, Six Hundred dollars. TAXPAYER DOLLARS!!!!
Then she turns 65 & goes on what is left of ‘social security.’
I have never heard of ‘being too stupid to hold a job’ as a category for SSDI, but this woman is pulling that off.
Other members of the immediate family also draw money from the Feds/state , so the current intake of $$$ for the whole group is $9400 a month.
I find this more than disgusting & very disturbing.
I am trying to find a state legislator who will look into this for me. I want it stopped.
I scanned the article but did not notice one other important issue.
According to my SS Statement, my SS Disability payment would be larger than the normal SS Early Retirement payment I can get at age 62.
If I could afford to retire before age 62, that means I have a powerful financial incentive to fake, or exaggerate, a disability.
Please note...
The formula for calculating a SSDI payment is really complex, so this might not be the case for everyone.
There is a sort of underground railroad for illegal immigrants. They start off in, let’s say NYC, then move westward via family contacts, collecting all the merry way.
They know all the ins and outs, and I don’t know of any incentives for any government entity to go and check - you know there’d be a hue and cry if there was any sort of bounty or bonus associated with catching someone.
My wife used to work the receiving desk at the ER. Patients or relatives would pull out identity after identity until one of them worked getting them into the system.
It's a welfare scam without pesky social workers - and it'll bring down the system faster than Obama can say furious - or wink and nod at the press.
there is a MASSIVE pool of lawyers who focus on this type of law.
You can even get disability for eating your self into obesity and all those related consequences.
it is all a wink and a nod. the administrative judge is a lawyer who will soon be hired or practicing that law privatly.
starving recent law grads find it easy money.
It’s the Cloward-Piven strategy.
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