On Jul 18, 5:11 pm, dxAce wrote:

They were closed because of lack of funds. Giving $50,000 handouts to
malingerers such as you add up quickly.

Handout? I worked and earned those benefits,

Americans are a compassionate lot and most favor giving disability to
the truly disabled who cannot work and fend for themselves. In fact, I
think we should give them much more money.

Its individuals like you, who are clearly able to work but are
misusing the system, that are wrecking a well intentioned and noble
program. And the victims of that are the truly needy - add that to
your resume of accomplishments scumbag.

From the Cato Institute:
Facilitating Fraud:
How SSDI Gives Benefits to the Able Bodied

by James M. Taylor
The Social Security Administration is currently handing out a flood of
benefits under the Social Security Disability Insurance program to per-
sons who are not disabled and thus have no legitimate reason to
receive those benefits.

SSDI was established as a source of income for persons who are so
severely disabled that they cannot perform any meaningful work that
exists in the national economy. The program, which allocates funds
directly from Social Security general revenues, was never intended to
be as broad and expensive as it is today. Yet current SSDI payments
account for 14 percent of all Social Security distr ibutions. In 1999
alone, SSDI handed out a staggering $57 billion in disability
benefits. Further, the federal government maintains dozens of programs
that raise the amount handed to persons with various degrees of
disability to an annual grand total of $110 billion.

A review of SSDI cases and a look at SSDI sta-tistics show a clear
pattern of SSA officials’ turning a blind eye to all standards and
common sense when passing out benefits. For example, SSA offi-cials
frequently award full SSDI benefits to persons who pursue disability
discrimination claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
However, to assert an ADA claim, a plaintiff must argue that he is
fully capable of performing a desired job. How can a person be
simultaneously able and unable to work? Wor se yet, in many cases SSA
awards SSDI benefits to persons whose ADA claims were dismissed
precisely because the per-sons were not disabled, even under the ADA’s
more lenient definition of “disability.”

Despite very strict SSDI eligibility standards, SSA has opened the
floodgates to innumerable, profligate benefit awards. For example, SSA
is currently paying a medical doctor to remain at home simply because
he prefers administrative work, which he can perform with very minor
difficulty, to treating patients, which he can perform with no
difficulty at all. This and numerous other cases documented in this
study demonstrate how persons who have very minor impair ments and who
would have little or no difficulty remaining in the workforce are
never theless collecting billions of dollars in SSDI benefits each
year. To slow the drain of Social Security funds, policymakers must
stop abuses of SSDI that are facilitated by SSA itself.