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I agree with your first link. I'll also add time is played into the system to help weed out those scamming. Three years, piles of doctor reports and evidence and employability play into it. One can not work at all during the process. And if one does work even a week, that is a huge red flag that will draw very close scrutiny.
The second link is about one bad apple out of 1500 judges? Could be, but there could be a reason for his high approval rate, perhaps. That area of the country is very poor. Many who flock to this area can live there quite cheaply. Homes are around 30-50 thousand, taxes are low--a few hundred a year. Also, many may have worked themselves to death, coal mining, physical demanding kinds of work that has caused severe damage. Also, one must look to see exactly why he approved these folks. There are many conditions that will expedite a claim like ALS, severe cancers, blindness. But on the other hand he could be corrupt.
Your third link about hacks who think SSDI is used as an unemployment scam is so full of BS, they ought to have their asses tar and feathered for being stupid and wasting taxpayer money. Sure they're a few scam attempts, in which the system is set up to weed them out, often at the detriment of very sick people. but to blow it up to a full investigation is nothing but a dog and pony show.
But in 5 years it's jumped 22% and are now at record numbers.
If they are all valid claims then maybe the CDC needs to get involved to find out what is happening in America to cause this drastic increase.
But in 5 years it's jumped 22% and are now at record numbers.
If they are all valid claims then maybe the CDC needs to get involved to find out what is happening in America to cause this drastic increase.
All I can say about the jump is for many years the backlog was piling up. Several judges were hired to clear the case loads. I think that took place about 3-4 years ago. Also, getting old means many are getting very ill. Our population is getting older. In the last year, for example, a brother and sister cousins of mine, both military brats, both in their 50s came down with ALS one year apart and died 4 months apart. Both received SSDI quickly.
Beyond useless, a joke. They told me I was too disabled to work since I lost my drivers license last February. And participating in their programs is one of the reasons I lost my driver's license. Again, beyond useless. I think they could do the disabled and taxpayers a favor just by gutting that program. All it did was end me up with a caseworker who spent most of her time searching for job applications, the same sort of thing I've done in the past. Employers aren't interested in hiring somebody with no work experience with 12 percent state unemployment and thousands of applicants looking for work. A joke and waste of taxpayer dollars. Florida would have saved money by sacking the caseworkers and just giving me some money to rent an apartment.
I ended up complaining to the US Department of Justice. To their credit, the Justice Department's disability division wrote back and told me that my case had been forwarded to the US Department of Education for investigation. As far as I'm concern, Florida is a mismanaged banana republic. Don't move here.
Here in massachusetts vocational rehabilitation is a joke too. For me, it was a different experience though. I was able to obtain a drivers license through them, but that's it. They were condescending, and were more interested in telling me what I should've and could've done, instead of guiding me forward. First they wanted me to go to community college with financial aid and pick a degree that would ultimately have been worthless. See: basket weaving, arts, general studies, even the computer degrees aren't worth much. I would have been more interested in some kind of hands on trade degree, something that would actually give you a skill and have value. Then they expected me to find a no-skill job with NO car and no way to get to said job. Walk 15 miles in the dead of a winter blizzard. It felt like they were rushing my case. I think part of the problem is that once you get on stuff like SSI and SSDI, it's like people don't want you to get off of them, or do any better. They are more interested in calling you lazy and a failure. I'd like to try going back to them, but I'd like things to be different this time. Preferably not with a caseworker who has a socialist agenda (don't bother trying to improve your life, just sit on your butt doing nothing and being poor) and if you don't like it blame yourself.....don't worry about who is really responsible......
I agree it is a complete waste. They'd be better off creating businesses or "buying" the disabled jobs, and not all of that stupid "tax credit" garbage that's open to abuse. The employer can hire you for a few months to get the tax credits, then fire you and get away with it. Course that would mean a (D)bureaucrat won't get their pension, and we can't have that.....
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