Sorry folks there is disability fraud

[daredtowork]

44. For two reasons

1) Destruction of welfare infrastructure leaves "disability" as the only regular income support for people who can't work. Increasing efforts have been made to include mental disability in this category in order to get homeless people off the street. Non-clinical mental disorders are not included, so don't listen when sleazy politicians start alluding to "back pain and depression".

2) Rural areas with jobs such as mining are causing people to physically break down earlier, and there are no alternative types of "desk" jobs for people to take in those areas. Medical care isn't strong and unionization has been breaking down as well. At the same time the age for Social Security has been going up. SSI has age tiers that make it practically impossible to get when you're younger, no matter how much pain and suffering you're going through, but then it becomes a pseudo-retirement program starting at age 60.

In other words, in rural areas people are run down by physically demanding jobs, and when they can't do that type of work anymore, they are routed through SSI - whereas in an urban area they might be able to do some sort of a desk job.