Turned down for federal disability payments, thousands die waiting for appeals to be heard
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It isn’t easy to be patient when you can’t work and you’re in pain , as Christine Morgan knows all too well.
Her chronic pain comes from fibromyalgia. Morgan, 60, also has spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spaces within the spine that pinches the nerves, most often in the lower back and neck. To top it off, she is diabetic, has kidney disease, high blood pressure and depression.
Yet Morgan has been turned down for Social Security Disability Insurance – twice. “They sent me a letter that said I wasn’t disabled,” she said.
Morgan appealed her most recent denial in August 2017. Her appeal wasn’t heard until more than a year later, on Nov. 7, and she still hasn’t received a ruling. She is among more than 800,000 Americans waiting for their appeals to be decided. Each year thousands die waiting for an answer.
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The inefficient Trump Administration is killing thousands each year
Wow - can we say over reach???? Trump was elected President in 2016, sworn into office in 2017. Your figure of 8,699 were in Obama's term and the additional were also from Obama's term.
Nice try.
Doesn't matter to them. Obama gets a pass on EVERYTHING. Every one of his failures is Trump and Bush's fault.
A lot of it was but that's not what is the present years we are talking about
Last two years have shown growth in the problem which anyone with intellectual capacity knows won't be touched by trump, the health expert. So go ahead and kiss is posterior for what he hasn't done.
And yes I blame Obama for some of this and more I blame the republican congress for not acting
How's that grab y ou !st
So the problem to you is a growing economy, rising wages, more jobs available than those that are looking for them, and lowest unemployment rate for minorities EVER.?
I will be honest. I think the present Republican Congress sucks, but the democratic one coming up will be no better. "I hate Trump" has never been a successful campaign cry.
This has been a problem for years. It's likely to remain a problem for years. As much as I dislike Trump, this can't all be laid at his doorstep.
Sandy - to a number of members on NT, Trump is the reason for failure of EVERYTHING - possibly including constipation.
In 2013 Social Security had it's highest number of ADLJ's with over 1400. At least in 2016 the Administration hired 264 more Administrative Law Judges. That was followed by only 132 in 2017.
From the article linked to the Washington Post
In fiscal year 2016, 8,699 Americans died on the disability insurance waiting list. That number rose to 10,002 in 2017.
As was mentioned above, Trump did not become President until January 2017, but of course, everything prior to that is his fault.
We all know that if it were not for Trump, every single one of those people would still be alive today. Absolutely none of them would have died from natural causes s/
He's responsible for his portion and we all know that he cares less
Nope, the problem is the average length of time it takes to have a hearing, an appeal, or get approved.
One of the requirements is that you cannot hold any job at all, which makes the whole process a drag on the economy. Fewer purchases, mortgage defaults, bad debt.
I have a relative in hospice for 3 years with ALS. It took 30 months to get SSD, meanwhile two households were bankrupted trying to pay the medical bills etc. without insurance.
Yes everyone dies.
I fought Social Security tooth and nail for 8 years for my disability, almost all under the Obama administration.
You mean you actually think that the Democratic party is the one that wants to deny people entitlement money?
The Republicans represent corporate America, and the Democrats represent the people. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, well, you know...
Did I say that? No I did not. My point was that President Obama owned this problem as much as Trump does.
It's been a problem for quite some time due to the huge increase in disability claims. The new budget doesn't address this and in fact it is cutting funding. That is going to make it worse, so the current administration isn't addressing the problem either,
Seems we are headed into a time frame that isn't going to be tolerable to huge number of US citizens.
Claims increased exponentially with the depression/recession of 2008/2009. No big surprise there.
Ok, so
And this is who many of you want managing your entire healthcare?
Amazing!