JD Vance just told Fox & Friends that 40% of people calling Social Security "are actually committing fraud"

[Ms. Toad]

46. So you have to just be sitting around being a couch potato, in your estimation,

to be a valid recipient of SSI?

Do you have a medical degree? Did you sit in on the evaluation process for this person? Are you their lawyer?

Invisible disabilities can be every bit as disabling as visible ones. And participating in social activities may mean the difference between life and death for someone with disabling depression, even if the depression is so severe that employment is not possible. You are not required to lock yourself away simply because you are receiving SSI. The test is the ability to participate in substantial gainful activity (not "unable to care for yourself and pretty much non functioning&quot . Substantial gainful activity, generally, is the ability to earn $1550 or more per month. My own participation in local theater on average, would not come close to that - even if I were paid, to address the specific allegation you made as to why this person is faking it.

(I am an attorney, I have a daughter with an invisible physical disability. She doesn't yet need SSI, but many of her peers with the same disease do. She also struggles with depression, which is notoriously hard to treat. From those perspectives, I know how hard it is to obtain SSI. I doubt either of the "illegitimate" claims are actually illegitimate.)