Isn’t there a standard job you can lose in 30 days or less to prove that you can’t work rather than waiting for multiple years pending case review? Why are people who are disabled allowed to perform a job to failure while under medical review? Wouldn’t that save time and money for everybody?
Why doesn’t the SSA just employ people to prove whether they can work or not?
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I applied for SSDI and was rejected. During my hearing, the SS Administration asserted that I was able to work. Funny thing is, I applied to work for the SSA and got turned down. When I said this in court the SSA agent was humiliated. But I still got turned down for SSDI.
Yea, that would be a sensible way to evaluate disability claims, but it would not create enough actuarial savings, ie, if you make the wait list long enough, some people will die and you don’t have to pay them benefits.
Because then anyone could just walk in and pretend to be in pain for a few days and then have a guaranteed income for the rest of their life.
They sort of do. There’s a program within the SSDI (social security disability income) program called Ticket to Work, which is dedicated to trying to find disabled beneficiaries gainful employment
When participating in this program, your medical reviews are suspended (meaning they won’t re-look at your case and redetermine if you fit criteria) and you will continue to receive SSI until you are making at or above the income cutoff ($1,620 or 2,700 if blind)
If you do not make any progress in your earnings/the amount you can work, your participation in the program will be terminated and your medical reviews will begin again
You will also continue to receive benefits like SNAP, WIC, and Medicare/Medicaid for up to 4 years after your benefits are cut
Your state will provide assistance with this through programs like Vocational Rehabilitation, and federal insurance (medicaid/medicare) will pay for the costs associated
You can enter these programs with or without SSDI (I got in well before my benefits were approved) so long as you can prove disability. Being in this program helps in getting SSDI benefits, as it shows intent to eventually get out of the program
Source: am on disability and in this program!
But to give a more straightforward answer: because they want to make getting disability difficult to deter fraud. If they hire someone and that person just half asses everything pretending they can’t do it, that person might qualify in the given scenario
To easy for someone to fake it. I could get fired in 30 days if I wanted.