Murphy's old position, quoted to a reporter: "I said, 'Just gimme the money, gimme the money, gimme the money.'" Murphy's current position: "If you're mentally or physically disabled, the government needs to protect [you]. What they did was give me loaded gun and say, 'Shoot yourself.'"
So what is the objective of his complaining? I've got an idea what he really wants: Another $40,000. "This time I won't gamble it away, I promise"! This lump sum stuff is stupid anyway. The way it happens is you get a doctor to say you've been in X condition since say "1985", and then if Supplemental Social Security Benefits agrees that your current condition qualifies, then voila, the government bends over and decides they should have given you benefits since "1985". Hence the lump sums. Another thing: If you've applied for SSSB fifteen years ago but were turned down, and today the government agrees that your same condition now qualifies you, voila, you've now qualified to help yourself to a lump sum of taxpayer money. Among the conditions that the SSA has qualified as "debilitating": A woman in Louisiana, after trying for 10 years to get qualified for SSSB payments, finally got qualified: her doctor agreed that she couldn't work or hold down a job because she was always worrying about not having enough money to get by on.
Easy come, easy go. David, in Las Vegas some of your fellow gamers were probably lump sum beneficiaries of the SSA (uh..and us taxpayers).
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