Disabled Recipients of Social Security Fund Face Hefty Benefits Cut

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SSDI is income based. However, the favorite trick of SS is to drag out the approval process (my Dr.'s wrote letters for years, my cardiologist was pissed at SS!) by having you be assessed by their contracted "Dr.'s" (I saw many, non-English speaking "Dr.'s" who said I was fine) so that your average yearly income shrinks dramatically. It seems (it has been a while) that your last 5 years of income is weighed more heavily, SS took 6 years to make a decision and only 2 of those were viewed retroactively. The amount on my yearly IRS report (if you were to get SS then) was cut in half by the time I was approved as disabled. I tried but was unable to earn during that time.
If you are a member of the great unwashed and you survive their vetting process, your SS income will have shrunken dramatically.
"They" prefer we die. If we are not agreeable enough to do that, they will guarantee that you live in poverty.
My Union never hesitated with my disability pension or continued insurance coverage or I would have died.
There is no justice in the process or outcome (in my case anyway) and now the added stress of Union pensions being done away with is driving me to the edge.
I was a single parent. My son (my baby) was used to Dad earning a living wage for the first ten years of his life. Now, I can't even afford to buy a decent vehicle. It would be great to find a life-partner but pretty hard to do. Who wants a man with on a fixed income with not much (except memories and honest intentions) to offer?