Man living as an ‘adult baby’ is cleared of Social Security fraud

[Janice]

Man living as an ‘adult baby’ is cleared of Social Security fraud

The California man who lives part of his life as an “adult baby” and collects Social Security disability payments says the federal agency has cleared him of wrongdoing and will continue sending checks.

Stanley Thornton Jr. now wants an apology from Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who called for the benefit review because the investigation disrupted the final months of life for his roommate Sandra Dias, who playacted as his mother, spoon-feeding him and helping him into his baby clothes until her death in July.

“We recently reviewed the evidence in your Social Security disability claim and find that your disability is continuing,” the agency said in an August letter that Mr. Thornton posted on the website he maintains to document his adult baby lifestyle. >>>

John Hart, a spokesman for Mr. Coburn, said Tuesday that the senator, who is also a medical doctor, is still puzzled by how “a grown man who is able to design and build adult-sized baby furniture is eligible for disability benefits.”

“Yet, the problem is not with Mr. Thornton, per se, but with the politicians and bureaucrats who have coddled him,” Mr. Hart said. “Disability fraud effectively steals from those who are truly disabled, while weakening the economy for everyone.”

So ... this guy used to be a security guard, drives a Dodge caravan, demonstrates woodworking skills on the National Geographic channel all while maintaining a website to document how he is able to bamboozle the fools in this administration and its agencies.

Is there any limit to how obviously corrupt this regime and its underlings in the bureaucracy can reveal itself to be, before voters have finally enough?

[DumbAss Tanker]

SSDI is one of the most broken of the broken programs, it makes debit cards for WIC and other cash programs look like a brialliant idea by comparison.  There is no effective objective limit on where the ever-expansive medical/mental health community draws the line on disability, unlike when the program was stood up, now it is a bleeding wound in the budget.

[Eupher]

SSDI is one of the most broken of the broken programs, it makes debit cards for WIC and other cash programs look like a brialliant idea by comparison.  There is no effective objective limit on where the ever-expansive medical/mental health community draws the line on disability, unlike when the program was stood up, now it is a bleeding wound in the budget.

with no tourniquet.

[Habsfan]

So I guess he's been classified as having some sort of dissociative disorder/mental illness. I wonder if they've found a name for it yet on the DSM-V scale (or whatever you call it). Under "Unspecified Dissociative Disorder"

[DixieBelle]

Sigh. I had to go to the SSA office yesterday to get a replacement card. Let me just say that is one depressing and dysfunctional place. I had to bite my tongue

[longview]

Completely repulsive lifestyle.  Both acting as a baby and ripping off SS.  I really can't believe he got away with this. 

[NHSparky]

Completely repulsive lifestyle.  Both acting as a baby and ripping off SS.  I really can't believe he got away with this. 

I can.  Sadly, I can.