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No, the Social Security Administration has repeatedly stated that fraud is an issue affecting 1% or so of payments.
Post a link.
No, the Social Security Administration has repeatedly stated that fraud is an issue affecting 1% or so of payments.
Post a link.
Again?
I must have missed it.
“Curbing Improper Payments” is the first objective under our 2008-2013 Agency Strategic Plan Goal to “Preserve the Public’s Trust in Our Programs.” When an individual applies for one of our disability programs, we have a system in place to ensure accurate decisions. Each year, we are statutorily required to review at least 50 percent of all State Disability Determination Services (DDS) initial and reconsideration allowances for SSDI and SSI disability for adults. Based on the results of these reviews in FY 2009—the most recent year for which data are available—the decision to allow or continue disability was correct in 98.9 percent of all favorable SSDI determinations and 99 percent of all favorable SSI disability determinations for adults. These reviews allow us to correct errors we find before we issue a final decision, resulting in an estimated $558 million in lifetime program savings, including savings accruing to Medicare and Medicaid. The return on investment has been roughly $11 for every $1 of the total cost of the reviews.
Statement of Carolyn W. Colvin,
Deputy Commissioner, Social Security Administration
before the
House Committee on Ways and Means,
Subcommittee on Social Security
January 24, 2012
My link is from October of 2013. Your's is from 2012.
That's wonderful. Care to explain how this contradicts anything? All I see what you have is Coburn and a lack of corroboration from SSA.
WASHINGTON – A judge, an attorney and a number of doctors pocketed more than $4.5 million by fraudulently ensuring that disability claimants would receive Social Security benefits, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs reported Monday.
The committee released a report detailing the findings of a two-year investigation into the Huntington, W.Va., Social Security Office of Disability Adjunction and Review.
The investigation found that Eric Conn of the Kentucky-based Conn Law Firm worked in cahoots with an administrative law judge, who had responsibility for ruling on disability claims. The firm received more than $4.5 million from the Social Security Administration in attorney fees for obtaining disability benefits for thousands of claimants whose claims were improperly granted. Conn also compensated doctors up to $650 per case for signing off on medical opinions supporting claimants' disability applications.
1%? Well thank heavens there's no issue with able bodied folks suckin down free money from Obama's stash
that will leave plenty more dollars for green companies like solyndra
The job I just got (and start on Monday) specializes in helping people who are in similar situations to yours, Kori. We house over 100 formerly-homeless people with mental illness, provide mental health therapy and support, and assist them in getting benefits such as disability as well as career training and job placement assistance.
Is there anything like that for you in your area, or are you basically stuck fending for yourself?
My link is from October of 2013. Your's is from 2012. Since then, there have some huge fraudulent discoveries. Did you read my link about the doctors and lawyers that are involved?
lololololThere's a low-income mental health and social work clinic in my area that I am making use of.
it has everything to do with keeping the obama\demonrat slush funds well stocked?
It hasn't gone to trial. I can't believe some of you people are so gullible enough to believe your own words. :roll: Ridiculous. Plenty of people are playing the system.
I really think doin' a brisk business committing fraud in these programs will be the only growth industry in the obamanation economyAre you seriously suggesting that from March 2012 to October 2013 we have information about the same time frame which skyrocketed from 1% to 20%, without internal changes to the infamously strict criteria of SSA.
This thread isn't about Obama and it isn't in the partisan bull**** subforum. Do you have anything useful to say, or do you intend to keep wasting all of our time with stupid, simple-minded political slogans that aren't even relevant to what we're trying to discuss?
I seem to recall your words being that the SSA even agrees. They don't. Coburn's accusations are likewise widely criticized for somehow arguing that the demographic change was unaccounted for by previous assessments.
I think that anyone who actually believes that the SS fraud is 1% or below is quite naive to say the least. Your Social Security Disability is running out of money.
Let's flip this shall we? If the general public hears about waste, fraud, and abuse constantly, but rarely investigates the claims and just takes it for granted, they are much more willing to accept that belief. I nearly always err on the side of skepticism anytime the general public comes up with a platitude. It has rarely held me back in getting to the truth. In this case it is waste, fraud, and abuse of the SSDI program.
Low and behold Coburn's report. It throws up all of the goodies that folks generally too ignorant to bother themselves with fact checking want. Nevermind the fact that most institutionalized knowledge points in the other direction. No, no, we are the ones who are naive...not the ones who don't know any better.
No one said it was. Is it your problem when someone breaks their back, or loses their limbs, or goes blind, etc. It's society's problem, we look after our own.if someone is dizzy why is it my problem?