Recipients of federal disability checks often admit that they are capable of working but cannot or will not find a job, that those closest to them tell them they should be working, and that working to get off the disability rolls is not among their goals.
More baffling, most have never received significant medical treatment and not seen a doctor about their condition in the last year, even though medical problems are the official reason they don't work. Those who acknowledge they're on disability because they can't find a job say they make little effort to find one, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of federal survey results.
Unearned disability, called SSI, is for individuals who have petitioned to be classified as disabled. Many of them have never worked and have never paid into Social Security. Earned disability, or SSDI, is for those who have held jobs for significant periods of time and paid at least partially into Social Security before becoming disabled.
Those collecting government checks in the unearned program are in less pain than their counterparts who paid into the system, the analysis showed. They are typically overweight, uneducated and from broken homes.
JR, the article goes on to talk about how many of them will work but it's all under the table.
JR, the article goes on to talk about how many of them will work but it's all under the table.
KC
Libs love taxes because libs don't pay them, they take them.
What? No "fair share"?
What say you, DUmmies?
On the other hand, I'm not sure that 'Not seeing a doctor about the disability in the past year' really means a damn' thing for most real mental disabilities and many physical ones.
It still pisses me off. I was going to turn him in to SS but as I read their page I learned that if I turned him in and they did an investigation and found him to be justly compensated for his disability then *I* could be fined!
KC
My son has a legitimate disability and is attempting to apply for medicaid to help with the cost of his medications. He is off our insurance soon and his meds run up around $500 per month. He wants to work and just wants help with the medical stuff. They keep pushing him to take food stamps and the like and can't seem to understand that he doesn't want it.
I I as a disabled man can work, THEY can work! This article proves what everyone already knows, or has at least suspected, they are lazy leechers.
That sucks.
I have a coworker that was a sheet metal worker until the construction biz went under. He moved to my town to live with family and was using the local job connect to try and find a job. Part of the program was attending classes. The classes were about how to apply for EBT, housing, etc....so he gave up on them and found a job with us.
We are lucky to have him, he turned out to be a great worker and a good friend. He said the "case manager" called him and wanted to know why they had not seen him and he told her "I just want a job, not food stamps." He is now able to help out his sister that has Lupus (and she works full time) and watch his niece on his days off to help save her on childcare costs. Of course he also pays her rent. He is like the rest of us, doing what ever it takes to get by. Did I mention he is conservative? :-)
I see mothers of children with several children, all with different last names picking up bags of medication that Medicaid is paying for because thier children are all disabled. Of course the mother is on disability as well. One lady that is disabled is also a foster parent. Between her family's five disability checks and the foster parenting check she is sucking down some pretty good money.
One lady was bragging that her family's psychiatrist gets paid $600 every two weeks just from her family walking in the door from her insurance company. It amazes me how many people on Medicaid refer to it as "my insurance." :banghead: The prescriptions are all name brand behavior drugs. Big money. Thousands of dollars every 14 days.....medication to keep the kids awake and medication to make them sleep....babysitter in a pill bottle.
But what about the statement before that DAT?
"most have never received significant medical treatment"
KC