Social Security Disability: Big Commission Lawyers earn $1 Billion Each Year to turn Workers into Non-Workers

There is something insidious about people not working. 

What?  Lawyers who get paid by crony judges who manipulate the S.S. Disability system to win huge amounts of money for those lawyers.

The compensation amounts to $1 Billion every year. 

Thank you Attorneys and their Judicial Patrons on the Bench.  PB
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From Barrons.com:

The job market has made a comeback over the past year, but the American labor force hasn't, and the prospects don't look good.

Work seems to be on the wane in the U.S., with worrisome consequences for economic growth.

While the unemployment rate slipped to 6.1% in June -- its lowest level in six years -- the percentage of adult American workers who are actually in the workforce is at its lowest level in 36 years, with no rebound in sight.

No one in government is facing up to the severity of the problem...

[One huge problem is the growing size of workers getting Social Security Disability Income payments and never working again.]

"There is a very powerful kind of for-profit advocacy component to getting people onto SSDI," says Autor.

Law firms that represent claimants are given a percentage of the take, much like personal-injury lawyers.

That might seem reasonable, but the sums involved are large enough to create a special-interest group that has a stake in perpetuating the system.

As Autor puts it, "The Social Security Administration each year pays more than $1 billion directly to attorneys that prevail against it on behalf of claimants."
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