A two-year investigation by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has found widespread fraud in the Social Security Administration's Disability Program.
The fraud is so rampant, and disability cases have so proliferated in recent years, that the Social Security's Disability Trust Fund may run out of money in only 18 months, says Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., whose office undertook the investigation.
Coburn’s report on widespread fraud, released Monday, focuses in large part on a veritable "disability claim factory" allegedly run by attorney Eric C. Conn out of his small office in Stanville, Kentucky, a region of the country where 10 to 15 percent of the population receives disability payments.
Coburn’s report on widespread fraud, released Monday, focuses in large part on a veritable "disability claim factory" allegedly run by attorney Eric C. Conn out of his small office in Stanville, Kentucky, a region of the country where 10 to 15 percent of the population receives disability payments.
The report documents how Conn allegedly worked together with Administrative Law Judge David Daugherty and a team of favored doctors with checkered pasts, including suspended licenses in other states, who rubber stamped approval of disability claims. In most cases, the claims had been prepared in advance with nearly identical language by staffers in Conn's law office.
The report found that over the past six years, Conn allegedly paid five doctors almost $2 million to provide favorable disability opinions for his claimants.Read the full story HERE and view a related '60 MINUTES" video below:
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3 comments:
I can't believe that the federal gov't is filled with corruption and that our safety net is filled with abuse and corruption! (sarc)
AZ
Anyone with a brain knows this system is abused constantly....
I always knew there was fraud in these claims, COMMON SENSE dictated when looking at the increase in the numbers of claims during Obama's watch, that something was way out of whack.
I'm Glad Coburn and his committee finally did some investigating.
RESULTS? THE FRAUD has turned into a BIG BUSINESS. Now let's see if anything is done.
A representative from OKLAHOMA found fraud in Kentucky, leaves the question of How much fraud is in the rest of the Country... ...like, say, California ? -[RAMPANT]- According to SSA's own reports out of California, 50% of the State is Disabled.
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