Anonymous wrote:Long covid… People are still pretending that’s a thing?

Exhibit A in how things are going to go for disabled people.

Pretending the disability just doesn't exist is a great way to not have to provide support for people who have it.

Anonymous wrote:Do you have a source?

no of course they don't. Garbage in garbage out

Hope?!
I hope it will stay the same for them.
But I hope there’s involuntary commitment for chronically homeless.

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Anonymous wrote:OP what the hell is up with your title? Did you mean— What do you hope Trump does for the disabled? If so, ask moderator to change it. Otherwise, it should be deleted.

nope

He believes in Eugenics, so if you have disabled people in your family, you should probably be concerned.

Title still doesn’t make sense. What do you hope Trump does to the disabled? Who would wish harm to disabled? I mean geezus, I’m a Dem and I don’t even think normal republicans would wish this.

New title: WHAT DO YOU THINK TRUMP DOES TO THE DISABLED?

Anonymous wrote:OP what the hell is up with your title? Did you mean— What do you hope Trump does for the disabled? If so, ask moderator to change it. Otherwise, it should be deleted.

nope

He believes in Eugenics, so if you have disabled people in your family, you should probably be concerned.

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Many people in this country are unable to work. But the Republicans want to get rid of SSI (welfare) and SSDI.

What do you want to happen to them?

Think the blind, those without limbs, those who can no longer walk or stand, those with intellectual disabilities, the severely autistic.

What will happen to those millions of people with no income after Elon Musk and his efficiency crew cancels anything not money generating?

He also wants to eliminate the special education programs at the US Department of Education.

OP what the hell is up with your title? Did you mean— What do you hope Trump does for the disabled? If so, ask moderator to change it. Otherwise, it should be deleted.

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Anonymous wrote:My cousin who has long Covid hates Obamacare. She has no idea she wouldn't have any care without it. She has a long list of vague symptoms that make her disabled and that is going to come back to bite her. It will make it really easy to deny her coverage for pre-existing conditions.

If Trump gets rid of lifetime maximums and protections for pre-existing conditions, she is screwed and part of me thinks - that's good.

I'm the bleeding heart liberal who fights for anyone who needs help but I've kind of had it with people who don't bother to educate themselves at least on what is in their own best interest.

So I'm horrified by Trump and I hope the damage he inflicts is minimized as much as possible.

But if he is going to make things hard for people - I hope it's the idiots who thought the man with "a concept of a plan" was the person they should support instead of a woman who actually had the ability to make things better for them.

And Harris would have had medicare fund home health care workers. Well I hope all those people who voted for Trump and need to pay out of pocket for help realize they did it to themselves.

Your arrogance is quite something.

And clearly her "bleeding heart" bled out years ago because it has no heart left.

Yeah, I am here. The compassion will be reserved for me and mine. It's the MAGA way.

I work for SSA, disability side. Here are some FACTS.

— we are incredibly underfunded and desperately need more people. And there are tight quotas for every job I’ve seen. And you get put on a PIP and fired for routinely missing them. No one is napping instead of teleworking. Or whatever.

— we lose 99 employees to another agency for every 1 we gain. In my job, it’s often the VA. We have the lowest job satisfaction rate of any large agency in the federal government and a lot of jobs are graded lower for the same work than someplace like the VA. So people leave for the grade bump. That plus the understaffing plus the quotas means more people leave.

— it takes about 2 years for a new employee to get up to speed. It’s a very complex program. But we don’t give them that time to learn off quota. In my area, half quit the first year.

— we pay the state DDS to make initial and recon determinations. How long you wait depends on your state and how efficiently they run their DDS. Unlike the hearing + levels run by Feds with tight quotas. Person who said 10 months for initial determination seems correct, state dependent. “Years” is not. If states get too far behind (approaching a year) federal employees get detailed to the states to help them get caught up. In fact, this is in place now in some states (ahhmmm Florida, the biggest offender).

— I’m not worried about losing SSI or SSDI. In the end, there is a bipartisan need. I am worried about: SSI being decreased (amount you get is state dependent, but it’s about $300-400 a month— no one is getting rich here), the SSDI trust fund running out of money and an across the board cut, and that we will continue to lose people who know what they are doing because working for a social welfare program under Trump is chaotic and soul sucking, and I expect our budget to get slashed even more, which makes the backlog even worse.

We still have the last of the Boomers, and they have a lot of institutional knowledge. And we are about to lose them. And it is certainly perceived that moving the the VA is better under Trump.

If you are going to worry, at least worry about the right things: staffing, minor tweaks to SSI and the SSDI trust fund going under and not being bailed out.

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Many people in this country are unable to work. But the Republicans want to get rid of SSI (welfare) and SSDI.

What do you want to happen to them?

Think the blind, those without limbs, those who can no longer walk or stand, those with intellectual disabilities, the severely autistic.

What will happen to those millions of people with no income after Elon Musk and his efficiency crew cancels anything not money generating?

Yes SSI is what people go on after they reach the max limit for welfare - aside: in DC there is no max limit for welfare.

The “disabilities” are often depression and anxiety. They often have kids who have ADHD and something else like anxiety who also receive payments. If the 2 year max had not enacted for welfare these people would not be “disabled” they would just be receiving welfare.

SSI is welfare in most of the country. There is no max on it.

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of "disabled" people that could work if they had to. Its just preferable to be a NEET than a wagie.

But rather than cutting off the transfer-payments, we could just make life a little better for the wagies, but that might negatively impact a quarterly statement here or there.

Like my alcoholic brother-in-law who has never worked, lives in a nice condo, has a cleaning service every two weeks -- a condition imposed by the condo board to allow him to stay -- and routinely has to be scraped off the ground by the Fairfax Co. police and taken to his condo. He has never done a thing for anyone and is of no use to the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't care. I'm tired of caring about others.

I worked hard to become rich, so fk it. Imma set back and watch it burn down.

+1 this is exactly what I got from this election. I don’t care about other people anymore. They should live with the consequences of their choices. I have worked hard for what I have, let them do the same.

So you will be happy with them all begging on the streets? People with autism, people with IQs in the 50s, people with Cornelia de Lange syndrome?

Everyone but those with Cornelia de Lange syndrome. They should beg on avenues because they seem fancy.

Anonymous wrote:What will happen to all the disabled babies being born?

Gay men will adopt them and name the girls Lily and the boys Bryce.

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Many people in this country are unable to work. But the Republicans want to get rid of SSI (welfare) and SSDI.

What do you want to happen to them?

Think the blind, those without limbs, those who can no longer walk or stand, those with intellectual disabilities, the severely autistic.

What will happen to those millions of people with no income after Elon Musk and his efficiency crew cancels anything not money generating?

Yes SSI is what people go on after they reach the max limit for welfare - aside: in DC there is no max limit for welfare.

The “disabilities” are often depression and anxiety. They often have kids who have ADHD and something else like anxiety who also receive payments. If the 2 year max had not enacted for welfare these people would not be “disabled” they would just be receiving welfare.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump is likely the least compassionate president we've ever had (makes fun of the disabled, has disdain for people injured in battle) and this time he will likely only be surrounded by people who are wired the same way. It's possible that congress could block some of his worst instincts but who knows? He will be a four year "lame duck" president with no fear of the consequences of any of his actions. He could shoot a disabled person on Pennsylvania Ave and get away with it. The very best we can hope for the disabled being no worse off in four years. Better off? No way.

I fear for my disabled young adult, and loathe all Trump voters.

WE did the right thing and voted for Democrats.

We are making a family plan now to protect ourselves.

Not being snarky, but you should contact ARC of Northern Virginia. They provide very good resources to help care for adult child after you die.

I have reached out to the Arc. They are concerned as well. Their plans works with existing government benefits that are in danger of being cut or eliminated.