What about all those people who went on Social Security “disability” after their unemployment checks ran out? Are these losers still stealing my retirement money, or have they gotten off their butts and gone back to work?
Interesting how you put that question. One cannot go on “disability” without an administrative judge approving. I hear tales of people who supposedly get SSD while being healthy enough to run marathons but I never meet those people. In this area you meet a lot of those who look like the walking dead but cannot get Social Security Disability benefits even though they have worked and paid into the system for decades. My wife went twelve years with no earnings and no health insurance after working ten years with doctors telling her she should be on disability. Finally, after going through every possible step of appeals she was approved and only got five years backpay out of the twelve. At one stage she had to pay two hundred dollars out of her own pocket to go to the next appeal level. It ain’t the rose garden some people think it is.
Having said that let me add that I think the whole social security system is unconstitutional and is a net negative, we would have been better off without it.