My best friend has long Covid. She had to reduce her hours to almost nothing and is applying for partial SSDI. For about a year we could only visit for 1 hour before she had to go lie down. We can now visit for 3 hours. The fatigue is crushing. She doesn’t go anywhere other than her very very part time job. Because she literally can’t. It’s been scary as hell to witness.

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Anonymous wrote:My brother was a cop.

His arm doesn’t work so he can’t shoot a gun.

If you look at him he looks fine but he is disabled, he can’t do his job.

But the qualification for SS disability is unable to perform any job.

Your brother can take a desk job.

What if he can’t type

Anonymous wrote:It is incredibly difficult to get Social Security disability. My adult nephew is severely disabled, and cannot walk, talk, or feed himself. My sister had to jump through hoops and had a home visit and a lot of other things to qualify for SS disability. And she only gets about $1500 a month for him. Barely even covers his food bills.

He may qualify for food stamps and other assistance

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Anonymous wrote:There will always be scumbags who take advantage. But long covid is real, and many do legitimately suffer.

Who are you to call her a name and say she's "taking advantage."

If she's playing tennis and enjoying overseas vacations (Italy requires a lot of walking), there is no way she is actually disabled.

Some people with long covid have issues with mental acuity and brain fog. All of the complications aren’t physical

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Anonymous wrote:This is just as bad as rumors about so-called welfare queens. Social security disability is extremely hard to get and pays very little. Other long term disability insurance plans are usually for a limited term, so one can’t live off them forever, especially someone as young as the OP claims her neighbor to be.

This is terrible propaganda and should not be allowed on DCUM.

OP & Co are stupid, jealous, petty women who don't realize the harm they cause by gossiping. It's just one step removed from doxxing and sending actual threats to innocent people.

NP
The responses are strange that so many can assume someone's disabilities are of no consequence when they don't know or aren't close to that person. I usually assume most people have some hidden struggles no matter how lively and happy they seem. Maybe, it's because long covid is fairly new so most of us don't have it or know someone with it.

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Anonymous wrote:Many psychiatrists and NP’s these days get harrased to write disability letters for patients or emotional support dog letters.

There are people who will pay 600 intake and 200 dollars for an initial visit all to claim they get anxiety and heart palpitations on the job and suffer from “poor executive functioning”. Once they get the letter , they never return for services .

Yeah, that’s not how it works. One letter will never get approval. Not to mention, they send you to an unbiased doctor. You also have reviews at least once a year.

OP, just MYOB.

Yes my aunt receives SSI disability from the State.

She cannot exceed 2K in assets so no life insurance, savings account or savings bond.
Cannot even own a share of stock.

I have heard that getting approved for SSI is really rough these days.

Thirty yrs ago it was much easier.
Nowadays not so much.
Even people who hire attorneys cannot get approved.

Plus SSI does not pay enough to survive on as a person’s sole income.
And to qualify - one must be at the poverty line.

So I am guessing that your neighbor is likely truly disabled as to get approved for disability one must have a Dr. confirm that she is in fact too disabled to seek gainful employment.

Anonymous wrote:I play tennis with a neighbor who could be the person OP is identifying.

She regularly talks about her “disability” wink, wink. I believe she is traveling overseas soon based on comments she made recently.

She’s a very athletic and competitive player with quite an ego.

These fraudulent scam artists have no shame. The one I know even recruited someone else to do the same LTD scam that they’re doing through work. I’m amazed they can get away with it, but feel powerless and can’t think of anything I can do about it.

Anonymous wrote:This is just as bad as rumors about so-called welfare queens. Social security disability is extremely hard to get and pays very little. Other long term disability insurance plans are usually for a limited term, so one can’t live off them forever, especially someone as young as the OP claims her neighbor to be.

This is terrible propaganda and should not be allowed on DCUM.

OP & Co are stupid, jealous, petty women who don't realize the harm they cause by gossiping. It's just one step removed from doxxing and sending actual threats to innocent people.

She’s a scammer.

We have a guy like this at my job, but I don’t work for the federal government, so not sure who to report him to.

I’ve documented his working other jobs during his STD+LTD medical leave, and taking vacations during his Intermittent LOA (after he ran out of PTO), and sent all of this to HR but nothing has come of it.

Would my employer’s LTD insurance company care to know this info? This guy is absolutely defrauding the company, and as far as I can tell he’s getting away with it. I actually think he’s falsifying his LOA documents that are supposed to be completed by the doctor.

I play tennis with a neighbor who could be the person OP is identifying.

She regularly talks about her “disability” wink, wink. I believe she is traveling overseas soon based on comments she made recently.

She’s a very athletic and competitive player with quite an ego.

The hell she is.

Not one of you criticizing the neighbor has a shred of personal knowledge to say she is faking, scamming, and/or not disabled.

So STFU and MYOB.

Period.

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Anonymous wrote:Mind your own business. Disability is not easy to get.

It is if you hire a lawyer who specializes in it to walk you through the process to get the medical documentation and then files the paperwork for you.

I know a family whose adult children (they are well into their 40s) are on disability.

They went to excellent private schools, screwed around in college, dropped out, held low wage jobs periodically, etc. Then the parents figured disability would be steady income, so their “anxiety” was properly documented.

So, yeah…people milk the system.

These are affluent MoCo whites who just don’t want to work.

I dare you to post this in the special needs forum.

They’ll rip you a new one.

They don’t have special needs. Completely neurotypical.

One is an alcoholic in recovery, and the other two have “anxiety.”

They maintain a UMC lifestyle thanks to their parents.

Again: these “kids” are in their 40s.

My alcoholic brother gets disability, $10K /mth actually. He was smart enough to buy the policy when he was 30.

What the problem with that?

Its a disability.

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Anonymous wrote:Playing bad doubles tennis isn’t very taxing. You have no idea how much she exerts herself on the court and none of this is any of your business anyway. There is a process and it’s not easy.

If she’s well enough to walk on court and play tennis, she can certainly do a desk job.

There’s also a process to notify authorities of potential fraud.

That is not how disability works. Disability pays you if you can’t do. YOUR job, it doesn’t matter if you could do another job.

WRONG Sherlock.

You’re thinking of Social Security, we are talking disability Forrest.

DP. You don’t seem to understand that most policies have only a limited benefit for own occ disability before it shifts to all occ.

Again, we’re talking about private policies. No, they don’t take computer programmers, lawyers and doctors and require them to wait tables, or be a greeter at the grocery store.