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Tag: Social services

And Part Of The Reason We Are In Trouble

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Mon May 16, 2011 at 10:43:32 PM EST
Tags: Government, Disabilities abuse, Dependency, Cheating, Michigan, Social services (all tags)

Is that there seems to be a market for helping people take advantage of government. An organized effort in fact, that has a sympathetic angle, but still abuses the taxpayer trust in helping those who need help. It goes beyond even the typical unemployment abuse, where a worker remains 'underemployed' to stay eligible, and possibly fails to report the cash jobs.

We have a more insidious abuse in another area; disability.

A website exists to assist those who collect disability payments in maximizing their benefits. Not just assisting in receiving these 'entitlements,' but in gaming the system so that real efforts to escape the dependency are squelched from the beginning. For example:

"Benefits and Work Calculator
What will happen to your income, benefits, and health coverage if you go to work? You can use the Benefits and Work Calculator to find out how a job may affect your total income and your health coverage."

And it provides a tool to keep those enrolled in disability plans from overachieving. Including our young and those in school. From even reaching the level of capability that they have.

For the sake of maxing out the cash.

Maura? I hope you read this from time to time.

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