8 Apr 2013 4:28 pm
Misty, on 06 Apr 2013 - 15:45, said:One of the latest GOP Talking Points is that the number of people on Social Security disability has skyrocketed under Obama, the implication being that the standards to receive such benefits have been relaxed. More of that 'free stuff' that Obama is supposedly giving away in return for votes.Strange, I've never, ever read one single story that implies that.There were threads on this forum about it.The key point of the many, many stories is that the economy is so rotten and decent jobs so difficult to find, that more fraud is being committed out of desperation.Typical of you to ignore what it said in my post about the eight former SSA commissioners who said that the growth that we’ve seen was predicted by actuaries as early as 1994 and is mostly the result of two factors: baby boomers entering their high disability years, and women entering the workforce in large numbers in the 1970s and 1980s so that more are now "insured" for DI based on their own prior contributions.Perhaps you can supply some proof that the number of people defrauding SSI or SSDI has gone up?