Abusing the "system"

Yesterday I was reading a thread where the topic was "Can I work while on disability?".  I was amazed that the first ten responses were from people who were on disability and working in one form or the other.  They also touched on about how much you could make without losing your disability benefits.  Finally someone else jumped in and asked very politely that people be aware that they should actually need disability before collecting it.  This person got jumped on pretty bad for being so insensitive and all of these people obviously needed the disability or they wouldn't have gotten it.  One person even went so far as to say they had been labeled extensively by doctors. I finally had to say something.  What I heard where people admitting that they could work but that they didn't want to lose their disability benefits by working too much!  For goodness sakes.  What ever happened to people feeling proud when they could work and actually get out of the system?  What is so bad about that?   Now I know that there are tons of people with disabilities who will never be able to get out of the system because they truly cannot work.  This includes people with physical and mental disabilities.  If you CAN work, why wouldn't you want to get off of the disability insurance?  Why do people feel like it is free money and they just can't lose it? I don't get it.    Technorati Tags : disability, work, insurance, system, abuse     Powered By Qumana