[jinpa_zangpo]

Social security disabilty claims have decreased since 2020, contradicting the claim that Covid, Long Covid, or the vaccine are leaving large numbers of people too disabled to work.

https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/dibStat.html

[alwillis]

It’s pretty well understood that social security disability claims are almost always initially rejected; most people have to apply multiple times.

Also Long Covid wasn’t an officially recognized cause for someone becoming disabled until sometime in 2022.

[hezralig]

I have been working with a friend who is recently disabled and apparently, it is substantially more difficult to apply for Social Security Disability. From personal experience, getting through to the SSA to have questions regarding the process answered or outstanding issues resolved has been quite the burden.

There has also been a reduction in staffing of these offices.

https://abc7news.com/social-security-disability-insurance-go...