As usual, plenty of ss disab misinfo here - it my computer is fucked up and I’m not gonna write a treatise on my phone.
If op just lost his job he likely is eligible for ssdi. Easiest way to build a case is start alleging and seeking treatment for a condition with no clear objective signs. Like migraines or anxiety. (Of course some folk actually are disabled by such conditions- but they can be faked.)
Go to the ER saying you want to kill yourself due to your unbearable migraines and anxiety/depression/whatever. Get committed. Then build a record by seeking treatment, telling the same story to pain docs and counselors. Maybe make another ER visit in a month or 2. Then apply for SSDI.
No, I won’t likely pay you, but one of the judges in our office pays 88% of the cases he hears, so if you draw him, your chances are good. If you lose, apply again. Figure out why you were denied, and make up some bs to address that.
That’s fine if “same day” was a typo for “some day”. Otherwise it smacks of a certain unbecoming desperation. One cannot, as well, overlook the possibility that a claimed typo was in fact a subconscious Freudian slip. I myself refrain from passing judgment. I am a graceful and noble Bernese Mountain Dog. I leave judgments to others. I merely point things out.
Thank you kind and noble Bernese Mountain dog, indeed it was a typo of the most hapless kind. Color me chagrined.
Nope, been there, done that. Can’t afford to update the t shirt.
And she gets it right in one!
Discerning, yes. Coastal scum must submit supplementary essays and bonded character checks. Cads and bounders, fade away before the sardonic cackle of my screening committee reaches you.
Often, that’s because what is clearly fraud to one person is legitimate disability to someone else. If the recipient has a doctor’s report that s/he cannot work regularly, then a report that the person occasionally does odd jobs carries little weight, because there aren’t a lot of paying jobs in the US economy where you can show up on good days and stay home on bad days.
I don’t understand: what are you suggesting is “a new problem” since COVID?
If you’ve just reported somebody in the last few weeks or months, well, the wheels grind much more slowly than that. Investigations and the administrative process of hearings will take many months, even years.
Also, it is not obvious what “clear documents showing fraud” you possess. People get welfare or disability because of clear documentation showing a qualifying circumstance; a different document showing a different circumstance will have to be reconciled with the first. Was the first obtained by fraud, or is it that the medical or other factors have changed in the meantime, or is this just a difference of professional opinion, or what is the reason for the discrepancy?
Yeah - this is pretty much my experience. SSA has an OIG which loves to investigate allegations of fraud. But a lot of “disabilities” are of the “invisible” or “intermittent” sort.
As a matter of course, adjudicators are prohibited from checking claimants’ social media and such.
