70-75% of all SSD claims are initially denied. But 55% of those are eventually approved upon appeal.
This constant rework of claims is unnecessary wasteful, lines lawyers pockets, and worst of all delays benefits and causes unneccessary hardship and stress for those who truly need them. I'm not advocating approving every claim, but rather minimizing the errors up front.
Apparently 34% of claims denied stand. But I think this also needs to be reviewed. Did the disabled person give up? Did they refile instead of appeal? Did they die before the appeal could occur? Was it a truthful claim that didn't qualify? Or were they fraudulent?
And if they were fraudulent were they prosecuted.
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This is not a vote on whether government should be in the disability insurance business. They already are. This is a vote on how SSD claims are being administered.