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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad they are checking into this. I think people are collecting on their parents who are dead. They probably never notified SSA about their parents death and grand parents death and are collecting. I wouldn't be surprised if scammers caught on to this and are collecting. They need to further investigate and prosecute these people.[/quote]

Like they have a body in their crawl space? My mother died last month, when the death certificate is filed (mortuary did this), SSA is notified. The direct deposit payment was back out of her account before I could even notify the bank she was deceased (didn't have the printed death certificate yet).

Just because you think it in your head doesn't mean it's that simple.[/quote]

What’s a mortuary? [/quote]

Okay, so you think hillbillies are hiding bodies, got it. Now, much bigger issue, figure out why there are so many people of working age collecting SSI:

Disabled beneficiaries aged 18–64 in current-payment status accounted for over 4.6 percent of the population aged 18–64 in the United States. In three states, they represented less than 3 percent of the state population. The states with the highest rates of disabled beneficiaries—7 percent or more—were Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, and West Virginia.
[img]https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/di_asr/2011/chart03.gif[/img][/quote]

Off the top of my head:

AL and MS do not have Medicaid expansion as of 12/23. Hard to qualify for ACA Medicaid in AR and WV, perhaps also KY. Maine may also be in that camp as they had a GOP (antisemitic) governor during that time. So if one is injured on the job or outside of work (e.g., car accident), it can be very hard to recover without medical insurance, access to PT, etc. I grew up in a purple state w/a lot of blue collar workers: you work on an assembly line, have limited insurance, and break your ankle: it’s gonna be hell to return to the line if you are not able to obtain and regain the strength to return to work. I know a few folks where this happened: one was lucky as the company found him a role for more suited for his new reality. The other canned him w/o a second thought.

And these are states w/a lot of blue collar jobs.

Also: being poor sucks, it drains the life out of you. These are poor states (well, Maine has wealthy second home folks, but that’s pretty much it save the LT transplants) and just making it is a struggle. Would not be surprised if many suffer from chronic depression.

It would probably be so much cheaper to pay for PT than SSI for their remaining years.[/quote]

Going to add on to this - the ability to do suitable work is a key part of the determination. If all you are qualified for is unskilled or hard labor, you will have a much easier time getting disability for a bum leg than say, a lawyer or computer programmer.

Spending money on appropriate care would help these cases, [b]but even more would be job training funds. [/b]Get people qualified to do something else. Pretty much anyone can work with the right supports and right training. But that costs money, and we’ve decided throwing a poverty wage check at someone is cheaper and better than getting them back on their feet as productive members of society. [/quote]
I remember a former POTUS with the initials BHO trying to do this and was eviscerated by the people. [/quote]

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