Sorry folks there is disability fraud

[daredtowork]

74. SSI/SSDI is INCREDIBLY HARD TO GET

And as a result, suffers very few fraudulent claims. And, as the OP shows, problematic claims are investigated. There are regular checks.

When there is a suspicious attorney or doctor, they are investigated - to the detriment of patients they handled (as the Kentucky case shows).

So cherrypicking OPs like this and regular invocations of how there is "fraud" in the system seem to have the ulterior motive of adding yet more bureaucratic red tape where none is needed or cutting the aid where that aid is desperately needed - and, indeed, should be expanded and raised because of the damage done by all the previous "hawks".

The ridiculous LIE UglyGreed told above about how people "he knows" on SSI get away with fraud after 3 years and then go drink beer and ride Harleys (doesn't that sound like the average "welfare fraud" astroturf comment?) just shows the agenda of this OP. Why does he feel so strongly about conveying the fraud in the system that he even has to lie about it?

Because he's trying to plant the idea in DU - inject a Republican talking point into the Democratic platform - that SSI/SSDI is full of "fraud and waste" and thus needs to be cut. Some news special did a special a while back presenting SSI/SSDI as an alternative form of "welfare", attempting to represent this as an "entitlement" that is available to be cut by grandstanding politicians.

Again I ask: WTF ARE PEOPLE ON DU DOING CARRYING WATER FOR FOX NEWS TALKING HEADS???!!!!