Sorry folks there is disability fraud

[haele]

70. Difference between Disability Insurance and Retirement Disability

VA Disability is not Disability Insurance.

While the taxpayer still pays for it, it's considered an contractual earned benefit that assumes that the Military was going to be a career and compensates for that work-related injury or condition that would keep you from being able to complete that career. Much like the disability benefits that most police and firefighters have, it's not that they can't work, it's that they can't continue the career that time, money, and training had been spent on. The Soldier/Sailor/Airman/Marine, the railroad engineer, the police officer, or the fireman can still work. They aren't going to get their disability downgraded if they do a physical labor job.

SSDI or Worker's Compensation are "after the fact/can't do meaningful work again" Insurance policies to cover people who don't have a pension or earned benefit that covers job-related injuries or health conditions, and would otherwise beggar family and friends who are willing to care for them, end up becoming an additional burden on local social services, or die homeless in the street because they can't hold down any sort of living wage work for any length of time due to their health or mental state.
Of course, they have to continuously prove that they can't hold down a job to continue getting these benefits - especially difficult for those who are fragile when it comes to either physical or mental health.

Because no one likes an undeserving "moocher"...

Haele