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| As unemployment benefits run our, many jobless file for disability SS | |
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| Banandangees | Feb 22 2012, 05:50 AM Post #51 |
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Of the folks who are on unemployment and go to SS disability (or file for it) and meet the description that you give, I'd say are "disabled. I mean, if you fall from a ladder and are injured, if you develop some physical disease (like MS), or any injury where you are determined by a physician that you are incapacitated, then you file.... legitametly. But the article suggests that there are many who don't meet those criteria... really. What you describe I think of as "disabled." Apparently, there is another definition if folks are applying for SS disability only because their UC runs out. |
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| campingken | Feb 22 2012, 05:57 AM Post #52 |
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Ban, If you go to the SS website you can find their definition of disabled. It is actually fairly clear. |
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| Mountainrivers | Feb 22 2012, 06:06 AM Post #53 |
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Well, yes, I agree. My point was that you could be on unemployment and be injured while getting it and then go on disability. Whether the claim of people going on disability just because their unemployment ran out is true or not, I think I would need more information to decide for sure. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 22 2012, 06:24 AM Post #54 |
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You know whats funny, usually the scammers scream the loudest |
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| Tim from AL | Feb 22 2012, 08:04 AM Post #55 |
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No, I didn't think bad of you. It's the ones faking it instead of looking for jobs and those who you report and they don't want to even look that make the rest of us have such a hard time and suffer most. |
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| Tim from AL | Feb 22 2012, 08:10 AM Post #56 |
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I'm on SSD. It's based on the income you have for the last 5 years. Since I worked at Walmart and Home Depot and didn't work at all for a year, they only went back the first year of my old job I worked at for so long. And, just so happens, it was during that last year that we were on short time and made about what WM and HD paid a year. So, I only got the $700 a month, which from what I understand, is about what an average. In the WM and HD jobs, I didn't work over 6 months on either, and never paid very much into the system on them both combined. So, I guess I didn't qualify for anything much more. I asked that same question, why didn't I qualify for more per month, but the only answer was based on the fact of my work time during that 5 year period and amounts were somehow figured on it by them. My last SS statement said $2740 a month, which I just found and looked at. I don't know why I don't get that much though. They must be holding out on me due to my age or something, they just don't tell me anything. |
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| Tim from AL | Feb 22 2012, 08:13 AM Post #57 |
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Of course, baring any miracle, it won't matter anyway soon. Folks like jcapps will be happy then and throw a party with their you don't work you don't eat mentality. Karma always gets them in the end.
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| colo_crawdad | Feb 22 2012, 08:42 AM Post #58 |
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Uh, Tim, that hasn't been Jcapps' mentality as much as it has been Jim's and Pat's. They are the one's that thought many should be forced to do stoop labor in Alabama by saying to them: "no work, no eat." (I know that is a paraphrase.) |
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| Jim Miller | Feb 22 2012, 08:50 AM Post #59 |
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Horrible philosophy! Government should take care of everybody. |
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| colo_crawdad | Feb 22 2012, 09:06 AM Post #60 |
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Just thought you would want credit for your expressed "mentality," Jim. |
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