Latest Pathetic Conservative Attack on Social Security: Disability Fraud Hysteria

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36. I'm thinking for the most part, the only people who have a chance

at a successful scam are the people complaining of the back problems. You know, the ones that don't show up on xrays. Thing is they really have to play this out for years to get on any kind of disability.

I do know someone who supposedly is trying just this. Now, I don't know the truth, but I have been told that he is faking and has even allowed back surgery that the person telling me says was not needed. I don't know. I'm not his doctor. He still has not won his case yet and it's been a couple of years. I told the person who told me about him to let it go. She wanted to report it but it is a member of her husbands family. I told her she should not be the one to report it and to let it go that karma would probably get him first. And it has. Right now he is floating from place to place, his marriage has crumbled, a woman he was seeing od'd and died while with him. I think he is miserable. And still not on disability.

It takes a long long time to get on it even if you have a legit claim. So yeah, there probably are some people who do get by with faking it but not as many as you would imagine. There always will be abusers of any program like this. There are also a lot of people who think that if they see someone who is able to walk and on disability that they are faking it, when they are not. So there is probably a bigger perception of it than actually occurring.

Probably more real than the republicans so called fraudulent voter, but abuse of the social security disability program seems to be a bit harder to get away with.

There have always been stories of somebody faking it and getting caught on camera doing things they have sworn they could not do, lifting, working on side jobs, etc. I wonder just what the number of people who have been caught faking really is. Those numbers should be available somewhere shouldn't they?

It would be a crappy life to be getting money for being disabled and having to fake it everywhere you go. Always having to worry about someone turning you in or taking a picture of you doing something too active.

This is just a ploy by the republicans to weaken the system. Let them show us the fakers and we will show you a republican. Because we here all know that faking the system is not something that most dem leaning people would find acceptable. If it is being done, it is republicans mostly doing it.