The government’s own rules are blocking people from getting off of disability
According to the most recent survey of disability insurance beneficiaries, 40 percent want to return to work. However, in any given year, only .5 percent successfully re-enter the workforce. That’s largely because Social Security’s complicated rules stand in the way, and that’s not right.
Mick Mulvaney, a back-bench Tea Party fanatic until the president* put him in charge of the Office of Management and Budget, has been out there defending the proposed federal budget and, in doing so, opening the window wide on how we hardworking taxpayers—and our grandchildren yet unborn—are being played for suckers by the old, the sick, the dying, and the natural wilderness, all of whom are sponging off our money.
There is an odd relationship between winning Social Security disability benefits and alleging only a mental impairment or combination of mental impairments.
There are some pesky little rules the Social Security Administration uses to determine whether a person is disabled. In fact, they are not “little” at all, and hardly pesky. They are so important, in fact, they play a determining factor in almost every case in one sense or another.
Yes, everyone likely believes their condition is severe enough to keep them from working. But in fact, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has its own definition of severity. In order to qualify for disability benefits, one must meet this stringent requirement.
Why Past Work Is So Important For SSD.
Almost 99% of people who file for Social Security disability believe that because they are unable to do their present category of work, they should be found disabled.
However, this thinking is flawed. Yes, determining if a person is unable to return to past work is important when deciding if one is eligible for Social Security disability benefits, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. There is more to be understood below the surface.
There are actually five-steps a person must overcome to receive disability benefits. They are: (1) a person is not earning above a certain level of income, (2) his or her condition is severe, (3) they may or may not meet a medical listing of their condition, (4) he or she cannot return to work completed within the last 15 years, and (5) there are no other jobs within the national economy a person can perform even despite his or her condition.