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

[Ms. Toad]

54. I'm appalled at the number of people who are sure that people with disabilities are cheating the system.

The ability to do some physical things, at a pace under their own control, does not mean they are not disabled. If, for example, their disability is PTSD it would not impair their ability to put roofing on their own home, carry deer carcasses, or 80 pound bags of deer corn around. But it might impair their ability to work around with others, or show up to a job regularly enough to maintain employment.

I have a disability - a back injury. I've had it since the 1980s. I'm not on disability, but I did receive a partial permanent disability payment for it under worker's compensation. My back injury is an atypical one - it bothers me when I a sitting - not when I'm active. I can lift 50 lbs without a problem - as long as I don't have to hang it off my right arm. But put me in the wrong chair for 15 minutes and I'm in agony for a month. Of course the worker's comp doctors tested for the more common manifestations of back injury.

Unless you were their attorney, or otherwise know them well enough to have seen their applications - and specific instances of lying - you don't know they are committing fraud. Life is hard enough for people with disabilities, without all of the spurious allegations that they are committing fraud in order to get the meager living allowance SSI offers.