Welcome back, Idahunter. Sorry bout the harddrive problems.

Yeah, its ignorance that'll doom us all. I like to call people like us, "Forgotten Americans". Even disabled people attitude are shameful. As long as they get theirs, they are happy. I've tried to get people on another forum, which directly deals with SSDI, to ask for suggestion on reforms. I was totally ignored.

Here are some ideas I came up with:

1. Let the interviewer more power to say, "that is not what disability is for". Fivolous cases. Someone breaks a leg or gets pregnant, applies for disability.

60% are unfavorable upon initial application. 80% of those are unfavorable in redetermination. Don't know how many are waiting to a see an ALJ but I assume its low. So far 48%. I'd say 35%-40% of all cases are fivolous. By law, they have to spend just as much time on those case as serious cases. Ignorance. It wastes SSA time and money and stretches serious cases out.

2. Real simple. "Applied for Disablity on XX date." should be put on their permanent credit report. Then people would think twice about applying.

Just these two suggestions may reduce fivolous cases.