People I know who have applied to receive Soc Sec disability have waited years to get this benefit. Countless visits to doctors, countless interviews, shuttles back and forth and endless paperwork to fill out.
I’m sure there are jackasses who get disability, either thru work/state/SS who can work. But I’ve seen more “fakers” where I work (self insured disability) than thru SS. I also realize this has to do w/ the type of people I come in contact with/know.
When I broke my leg and had to have an operation, our loss control person wanted to know how long I would be off work. I said I wasn’t taking any time off. She was stunned. She said “you know, everyone takes at least 5 days off”. Self insured system allows for a bit of ‘cheating’. I declined to partake.
I believe what you say.
Having been on SSDI for 6 years before leaving it, I think what happens is people lose the skill that made them 60 to 80 thousand before, so 2000 or 2500 a month seems like a lot years later when they are better and looking at making the same or less in the workforce.
I was lucky to get a job making relatively the same as I did when I hot gotten injured.
Most, I guess, aren’t.