Who’s going to be in charge of looking into disability fraud?

Moving this and similar giveaways to Social Security was a big part of Bill Clinton's "balanced budget".

Crazy checks are a way of life in Eastern Kentucky. Those who don’t get them early will go on to plan b, which is a trifecta of work comp disability claims (cumulative trauma, hearing loss, black lung, whatever fits) followed by SSDI.

I’ve never claimed disability because it’s silly how much they throw at you. I think I’m at like 60% and I’m doing just fine in my civilian job

The only thing I’ve “taken” from the VA is my post 9/11 bill which I paid into at the start of my enlistment. Even then I take the minimum hours before it reaches money paid for BAH

One.of the.biggest, fastest growing scams in the government.

Subcontract it out to Amex

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I’ll bet there is a fair amount of ex- military men and women who do this also.

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I work with a handful of vets at the mill and all of them are getting checks. One guy lets his beard grow out to look scruffy for his once a year examination.

It is a scam for sure. Not sure how you fix it without fricking over the good guys. I have a buddy who never deployed and just his back gave out due to bad genetics. 100% disability. You have special warfare who don’t report anything during their time so they can stay active boots on the ground and they’re denied 100% due to them only bringing it up at the end.

Having said that. The ones who take full advantage of this and are perfectly fine are liberals. They’re already not for Trump so frick em

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When I was younger some of my relatives would talk about crazy checks. When I asked them what this was about, they processed to tell me about kids who were diagnosed with various mental issues and receiving disability checks.
Turns out, many of the kids were simply diagnosed with ADHD and were getting qualified for disability checks.
I’ve heard it’s also happens among the adult population as well with those who refuse to work and prefer to stay at home and get checks?

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Go watch "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia" and pay particularly close attention to the part where some of the local government officials and lawyers talk about how that entire crazy arse family has a university-level understanding of the Social Security system and State Disability systems. Generations of that single family have figured out how to maximize their income from government.

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I’ve got to see this

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It's...um...interesting for sure.

Perhaps we need to make the names public - and eliminate their access to certain areas - do we want mentally ill people purchasing guns?

IF you are going to declare yourself "unfit" to the degree that you need TAXPAYER $$ to exist, then you should be grateful enough to make it known.

FOR INSTANCE - any pure "welfare" $$ ought to be restricted to purchasing the most basic of real food items - such as dried beans, rice, flour, canned meat/vegetables, bread, etc. === NO 'luxury items' such as snow crab legs, etc.

People with any mental 'disabilities' should have it marked on their IDs.

ANY fraud in the system should be dealt with Rapidly and Harshly.

There was a time in America where people took care of less fortunate people on their own. People knew who the scammers were and they were left to their own devises - perhaps they had family or friends who would shelter them.

I've repeated it often - growing up in the recovery from the Great Depression, there were many hoboes roaming the country. My mom would fix them a meal when they came by the house - but while she was preparing it, they had to perform some task. Usually the task was simple - something that was one of my own 'chores' so I asked her why she had them do it instead of ME.

Her words stuck with me - "so they will feel better about themselves - they earned it,"

I've never wanted anything I didn't earn in my life. My wife and kids are the only exceptions to that dictum.