scrabbler1
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As a former Section 8 landlord, I have seen countless abuses of the disability system. I wont go into detail here, because I do not want to get controversial, but there are plenty of physically healthy 20+ year old people on disability just because they cannot hold a job.
Do not for a minute think it's all people who want to work, but cannot.
Much has to do with some limits on Welfare. When a person runs out of welfare benefits, they get a Dr. to put them on Disability. It's a different 'bucket'. There is a lot of documentation and studies on this.
In the last few years, we have had a long, ongoing scandal about disability fraud with employees of the Long Island Rail Road conspiring with doctors to being declared disabled and begin receiving disability through the program. Hardly a few weeks go by without someone in the news getting indicted or pleading guilty to some involvement with this widespread scheme. Do a search for "lirr disability fraud" and you find lots of newspaper articles and other links to stories about this issue.