Thats the game where I work. If you get mad at the boss or are about to be fired, put in for a fake disability. The employee doctor does her best catching them, but it is an uphill battle.
Fake PTSD is another big one. They brag about the money they are dragging in. One guy said the military doctor told him "fake it till you make it."

yes in our small office we have 2 out now on disability from "stress" which is stressing the rest of us out. we see through it.

Getting on disability is like winning the lottery for a lot of the recipients. This program is abused as much as the Earned Income Tax credit. Both should be stopped. The parasites and deadbeats have ruined these Democrat freebies.

Trouble is, with the great economy of our Dear Leader(US), for middle aged men in their 50´s, finding them out of a job and with little prospects in sight (how many times I was asked by some snot nose 30 something, "don´t you feel overqualified for this job?"), disability sounds like a decent out.

I even seriously considered it a year ago.

It´s not like as if you make a lot of money on SSI, and there are pretty strict work restrictions. I don´t think many people are turning to it unless they are desperate. Besides, the people I know, had to wait a year after going out on disability before applying for SS disability. And their long-term disability at work doesn´t necessarily last that long.

I used to work in a low income, low education area. It was amazing the number of work-age men walking around with canes. In these areas, if someone is successful in getting some kind of government aid, a whole lot of the others try to get the same thing, often successfully. Obama and the dems are keying in on this phenomenon to develop their permanent underclass of subservient voters.

Would you say that the some of the people of disability makes up the 47% that Mitt was referring to?

I know of someone who has been on disability since her early 40s for a "mood disorder." She´s now 61.

Doctor´s participating in the latest scam.

Combine ssi with food stamps, a rent subsidy, or a government propped up mortgage and it´s a living. As for work restrictions, if so strict, why do ssi rolls burgeon? Barone is right, and it´s confirmed by human nature that once people draw disability for a year or so their career is likely over. Those who don´t work again won´t be counted as unemployed in the obama administration propaganda mInistry jobs reports. That´s a win win for the little marxist.

As I have mentioned before, in the wake of Obama´s reelection, two of the best financial investments to consider are gold and getting on disability.

I have a co-worker whose sister is on SSI due to drug use/addiction & she cleans houses for cash. Now why someone would let an admitted drug addict into their home to clean is another story...

Here´s a thought. The liberal Democrats want to legalize the up to 20 million illegal alien population and give them access to government programs like social security disability. Most illegal aliens now do not have access to such programs unless they falsely claim to be US citizens which some do.

The illegal alien population consists mainly of poor generally uneducated people who currently have little option but to accept hard low paying jobs when they can find them.

Once legalized and eligible for programs like social security disability and with human nature being what it is, you can bet that a huge number of those people will be taking a shot at getting on long term disability.

With most claiming that they can´t speak English during the adjudication process, represented by attorneys who know how to tailor the claims to meet the adjudication standard for approval of the claims, trying to only allow deserving individuals to end up with a pot of disability money will be like trying to untangle a mass of spaghetti.

The US Government and all its programs, and especially the race-based, are the biggest hustle in the history of the World.
I am a Taxpayer in a Welfare State.

It´s only money...we can print more!

In my long career as an insurance agent I got to see plenty of disability claims related to workers compensation insurance.

Plenty of fraud happens on the WC disability side. Everything from the guy who just happens to hurt himself before deer season opens. He only wants a few weeks off. The worst ones are the ones claiming some sort of back injury. They are looking for long term disabilty or, at the least, a hefty lump sum settlement.

And naturally, there are hordes of ambulance-chasing attorneys offering their services to these poor ´victims´. They advertise on Atlanta TV 24/7.

It takes at least a year to start collecting disability from SSI. I always thought my husband went overboard buying insurance through his work and then he became ill last July and his short term and then long term disability took care of us and then some until he passed two months later. I can´t imagine trying to apply for benefits with the government while he was in the hospital -- I wouldn´t have been able to pay any bills.

If your company offers additional disability coverage, take it. You never know what tomorrow will bring.