The US doesn't have space for good faith applicants with all of the people it has mooching off the system. Like I've said before, my brother used to live in an apartment building where maybe 2/3s the residents were on Section-8, with many having off-book incomes including dealing drugs right in the building.
Even with what I consider a good reason I was hesitant to apply because I didn't want to be a moocher. I dunno maybe I'll try again with the backing of a lawyer.
Yeah ive qualified for food stamps and probably even welfare a few times in life would never take it though. Id just swallow my pride and ask for help from family. They care about me and dont mind helping. Average taxpayer doesnt know nor care about me.
See, this is the problem. If the situation is anywhere near what it is over here, the general public believe there are way more "moochers" than there really are. Here, that's definitely the case - roughly 95 to 98% of calls to the welfare fraud line have proved to be malicious or mistaken (and largely malicious).
Not only that, but the amount of money that would be paid out if everyone eligible applied for the benefits they could get is higher, for this country, than the amount currently being paid out to genuine and false claimants alike, because so many people who need the help are discouraged from applying because of the stigma that the government, media & general public between them have created about welfare recipients, and because the process has been deliberately made especially difficult for anybody who has the slightest problem applying unaided (which is most people, because after all, the benefit is there for people who are sick or disabled, and often both!).
If your family can afford to support you, good luck to you. I wouldn't go through the process if I'd had a choice (I didn't - all my family have the same genetic & inherited disability, unluckily for us since it's of 50% heritability). It's a mental and emotional grinder, frankly.
As for people with off-book incomes, given how little many people actually get in disability allowance, some struggle to survive without finding ways to either cut corners or make extra. I don't necessarily blame them for that, depending on what it is that they're doing. Mostly, I blame the government for not being willing to make the amount enough to live on, here at least. I don't know how much you get in the US, but here the local authority want fully half of mine just to cover my 9 hours of basic and low-quality home-care per week, which makes getting by very difficult.
If what you believe is that they're not disabled at all, my guess is that you haven't a lot of experience with just what it takes to get through even the application process, let alone actually end up getting SSDI or PIP. Most of them probably don't want to talk about whatever condition they claimed for, and frankly I don't mention all of mine to my neighbours, either. But the fraud & error rate for PIP in the UK is less than 2% (even by the government's own figures, & they have incentive to make it look as bad as they can).
If thats directed at me Idk what you are going on about cause I didnt make a lot of those claims. Just that as long as my family can and will help I'll always go to them first cause if rather depend on those who actually care about me than taxpayers
Only the earlier part of that was aimed at you. The remainder was responding to the posts you quoted. ---