Alan C. Posted July 30, 2013 Posted July 30, 2013 Many disability recipients admit they could work 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.. . .The survey included responses from 2,300 disability benefits recipients. There are approximately 11 million SSDI recipients and approximately seven million SSI recipients.
Sashajade Posted August 21, 2013 Posted August 21, 2013 I once lived with a girl who got on disability pretty young for bipolar, borderline, cutting, addiction, and oh my was she a complete physcopath statist.That was before i learned about people that are like predatory and want to exploit you for their own ends. I had went thru PTSD which continued to devastate and ruin my life until i found some self therapy resources. But i'm kinda just beginning the healing process. So as result of many stressors and pile on some PTSD. I struggled in school got punished for it alot, and for years i thought that i had low intelligence, learning disabilities and i lived up to this being reinforced over the years. Teachers ignored the signs of abuse completely. When i barely graduated, i was terrified about how i was going to make it, i could barely conceive of any kind of future. I couldn't even do a low level job bc of my broken brain syndrome.Anyway, she tried to convince me that i should get on disability. I knew that i needed help but not from the government which has taken away so much from me. Anything that complicated and ridiculous of a process cannot be a good thing. Im pretty sure the majority of people would definitly not be on disability if the state hadnt crushed them into the system.
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