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Old 01-30-2008, 06:19 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by no rights View Post
I know the feeling. I've stayed in homeless shelters. I wasn't just handed SS over night.
That is a valid complaint NR. The time that it takes before someone is given what is set aside as provision for the disabled. Some disabilities are kinda iffy though, we must admit.

But there are those who have truly debilitating and heart-rending disabilities and they are on a long, long waiting list for their case to even be reviewed and then they are often turned away, only to have to appeal it. And wait longer still...

Guess that is job security for those who work in those agencies!

Then there are some who get disability based on health issues that come from behaviors. Like the morbidly obese that get SSI. I have a particular difficulty with some of them. I believe that it ought to be mandated that they get medical guidance to lose the weight that is making for so many weight-related health issues that make for being disabled. They can be weaned off the support as they recover from their health problems.

There was a local woman here who weighed like 500 some lbs. She was on all kinds of drugs. And then cos they were for pain and sleeping pills and such, she was selling the pills to vulnerable kids in the apartment complex I use to live in.

I believe she ought not still be on SSI...abusing the system like that.

And in many cases, The Dept. of Vocational Rehab can retrain someone who can no longer work in the career they had, prior to their disability.

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