FYI.
Please read the comment from Marilyn Gjerdrum at the end of the following article.
– SSDI IS THE SIZE OF GREECE (The Burning Platform , May 9, 2013):
The number of people on SSDI now exceeds the entire population of Greece. The aging of the population has nothing to do with the increase. In 1968 there were 51 workers for every person on disability. Today there are 13 workers for every person on disablity. Even the most pollyanna would agree that medical advancements since 1968 have been significant. These medical advancements would argue for less people being on disability and unable to work. Workplace safety measures have been increased exponentially since 1968, so that also argues for less disabled workers. The good old ADA law forced all workplaces to become disabled friendly. That argues for less people on disability. The country has transitioned from a manufacturing society to a service society. Workers don’t work on dangerous assembly lines anymore. Robots do the dangerous stuff. This should have dramatically reduced worker injuries and disabilities.
Everything I’ve pointed out is true. The tremendous increase in people on SSDI is nothing but a gigantic fraud, perpetuated by the Federal government and slimy lawyers. The government broadened the scope of disabilities to include stress, depression, and non-diagnosable things like aches and pains. I have stress, depression and pains too, but I get up at 5:15 every morning and go to work. The SSDI program is a joke. More than half the people on SSDI are lazy good for nothing leeches. They are sucking you and I dry while sitting around eating cheetos, watching Judge Judy on their government subsidized cable TV, and texting with other lazy fucks on their iPhones.
And don’t forget, you get the added benefit of Medicare coverage after only two years of SSDI stress.
10,962,532: U.S. Disability Beneficiaries Exceed Population of Greece
The total number of people in the United States now receiving federal disability benefits hit a record 10,962,532 million in April, which exceeds the 10,815,197 people who live in the nation of Greece.
According to newly released data from the Social Security Administration, the record 10,962,532 total disability beneficiaries in April, included a record 8,865,586 disabled workers (up from 8,853,614 in March), 1,936,236 children of disabled workers, and 160,710 spouses of disabled workers.
According to its latest census, Greece had only 10,815,197 residents.
April was the 195th straight month that the number of American workers collecting federal disability payments increased. The last time the number of Americans collecting disability decreased was in January 1997. That month the number of workers taking disability dropped by 249 people—from 4,385,623 in December 1996 to 4,385,374 in January 1997.
As the overall number of American workers collecting disability has increased, the ratio of full-time workers to disability-collecting workers has decreased.
In December 1968, 1,295,428 American workers collected disability and, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 65,630,000 worked full-time. Thus, there were about 51 full-time workers for each worker collecting disability. In April 2013, with a record 8,865,586 American workers collecting disability and 116,053,000 working full-time, there were only 13 Americans working full-time for each worker on disability.
There are two forms of government disability, not just one. SSI is given to the indigent, the poor, people who are sick and cannot work. They have not paid into Social Security, so their benefits are far less. They are essentially the poor.
Social Security disability Insurance is different. It is for people who have worked, paying into the system during the years they have worked. The amount of money they receive is based on what they have paid in, no more, no less.
So, please, don’t mix the two together. One of them, Medicaid or SSI is welfare, Social Security is an insurance system the recipients have paid into, it is not welfare. If you don’t work, and don’t pay in, you get nothing.
I have worked a lot with sick people, had my own nonprofit for several years, and I learned a lot. The ones on welfare are given a few dollars a month, but no food stamps. Trust me, nobody would want to live that way, they are the ones in food lines, because they suffer from “food insecurity.”
These people are usually desperate, they cannot afford cable TV or iPhones. I had a patient who was dying from Liver cancer…….had we not been there to help him, he would have died a lot sooner than he did.