Pay attention to the drug rehab issues currently in CA. Disability works in much the same way. My relative was herself a "caregiver" working with home health and eventually figured out how to be a "carereciever". She's had half a dozen "caregivers" herself now, two of whom have also now figured out how to get on the receiving end instead. These are people in their 30-40's. They now get other up and coming prospects to provide them with weekly maid service.
Abuse is very widespread. The reason is completely obvious: Nobody who works in the system has ANY incentive whatsoever to prune out the deadbeats. The more people "needing" care, the more employment for "caregivers". One of the above mentioned caregiver now turned receiver in fact laughingly told this to my face when chided for doing something I thought my relative should be doing for herself. "Ah ah, its job security." I wanted to slap her.
My relative is completely able to do anything she wants, but is completely helpless at doing anything that resembles work. So the state enables her to get away with this. There is a reason for this: If she does take care of herself, she loses the maid service. She has in fact gotten in trouble a time or two for being absent too much from her apartment. She is supposed to be there (helpless of course) when the maid service shows up. But she likes to run around town. Normally the maid service is wise enough not to report this (why be so stupid as to loss your employment), but one of them took a harder line. This crimped my relatives style for a little while, until that care giver moved on. She is very smart, and the people who work in these scams all learn from each other. The 20 hrs/week of care for life was arraigned via a drug overdose (and a quick call to 911 just to make sure it wasn't successful) that she succeeded in having terminate with a brief stay in a nursing home. There is some quirk in Washington state law which provides for home care following a nursing home stay (the details I don't know), but she did know from patients she had tended. So care for life. Nobody from the bottom care giver to the top bureaucrat running this monstrosity in Washington State has any desire to reduce the size of their business. The more need, the more wailing for larger budgets and the bigger the fiefdom.
My relatives angle BTW is back pain and panic attacks. Both of which are impossible to verify and easy to fake.
The only way it changes is if people start exposing it like CNN did in CA. When the bureaucrat gets pinned in front of a camera and embarrassing questions are being asked, then finally something will happen.
I did notice with great interest that all the elected officials in CA who opined about the drug rehab issue, all blamed the scam artists running the clinics, and not a single one asked why oversight had been lax and why the top dog at the state wasn't fired already. Hello, if you don't have effective oversight, the scam artists will always take advantage. The fault lies with those who fail to implement effective oversight. Those are the individuals who should be heading to jail.
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