Disability
What one chooses to believe as disability and what a true disability really means sometimes is a person’s interpretation. We all live in to today’s society where many try to get something for nothing while there are many others struggling with a hand to mouth existence living a world meant for those without disabilities. The difficulties for a person with a real disability to receive assistance from the government as compared to those who don’t really need it receive benefits is a struggle some people deal with on a daily basis. The process of receiving is a long difficult road for one to travel for someone who in desperate need of assistance from the government. Applying for disability benefits need to be the same across the board for all those who apply instead of placing stipulations for some and not for others. Disability is defined as according to the 1954 social security amendment “inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or to be of long-continued and indefinite duration.” …show more content…
(O’hara 14) However as corruption and dishonesty has increased many people have found ways around the system to receive benefits. A very common deceit is a claim of mental health problems. Although many mental health issues are very difficult to fake, mental health issues such as anxiety or depression are often very hard to disprove. Because of the manipulation of certain aspects of the Social Security benefit the SSA has developed a functional assessment instrument to try to eliminate false claims of mental illness. This tool has been accepted by many health care professionals and public advocacy programs. (Mittendorfer, Alexanderson, Westerlund
What one chooses to believe as disability and what a true disability really means sometimes is a person’s interpretation. We all live in to today’s society where many try to get something for nothing while there are many others struggling with a hand to mouth existence living a world meant for those without disabilities. The difficulties for a person with a real disability to receive assistance from the government as compared to those who don’t really need it receive benefits is a struggle some people deal with on a daily basis. The process of receiving is a long difficult road for one to travel for someone who in desperate need of assistance from the government. Applying for disability benefits need to be the same across the board for all those who apply instead of placing stipulations for some and not for others. Disability is defined as according to the 1954 social security amendment “inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or to be of long-continued and indefinite duration.” …show more content…
(O’hara 14) However as corruption and dishonesty has increased many people have found ways around the system to receive benefits. A very common deceit is a claim of mental health problems. Although many mental health issues are very difficult to fake, mental health issues such as anxiety or depression are often very hard to disprove. Because of the manipulation of certain aspects of the Social Security benefit the SSA has developed a functional assessment instrument to try to eliminate false claims of mental illness. This tool has been accepted by many health care professionals and public advocacy programs. (Mittendorfer, Alexanderson, Westerlund