Sixty Minutes will do a piece tonight on Social Security disability, apparently focusing on allegations of wrongdoing in Puerto Rico and West Virginia, linking those situations to the possible exhaustion of the Disability Insurance Trust Fund in 2016. Expect a fair and balanced report.
@ccd4pwd will do a live tweet fact check on the 60 Minutes story.
6 comments:
Brace yourself for a huge punch in the gut.
The Jericho office is corrupt. The ALJs and senior attorneys loaf at home, disappear during the day, and sign in and out falsely. they are crooks and cheats.
That was really bad. Very biased reporting there 60 minutes: two disgruntle SSA workers; two frustrated ALJs; a Con-man; two lawyers from the disability mill aka Binder and Binder + Senator Coburn who is a long time hater of the disability program. Where was the other point of view?
I agree that it was really bad. Most reasonable people (that isn't a part if the system in some form) will come away with two things: most of those on disability shouldn't be and disability attorneys are gaming the system.
Nothing new here. After years of looking at the issue, don't see how Senator Coburn can say his "investigation" did anything. This is essentially the same story that the Wall Street Journal reported a couple of years ago.
It sounded like Senator Coburn said he wants to help sick, lesser educated, out of work folks with something. What's he want? Indefinite unemployment benefits? Another government program? Does he really have an idea of what he is doing?
Too bad CBS did not point out that the AALJ is suing the government about Social Security's case goal for them.
Given what it could have been, I didnt think it was that bad at all. The alj union didn't embarrass itself, the budding puerto rico scandal wasn't mentioned. Eric Conn couldn't talk, and yes, claimant's reps do game the system especially the national firms. Senator Coburn's take is mostly garbage and we could have used a few real claimants reps and agency mgt comments but overall this wasnt that bad.
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