Candy, you are so naive about how things work. My spouse has been very ill since 2012. She got SSDI about a year ago. Right now she is in the two-year waiting period post-SSDI award to qualify for Medicare. My wife typically goes on and off-state benefits (Medicaid) 4-5 times a year depending on if she is hospitalized or if she has been recently hospitalized. These aren't simple forms. Most of this documentation isn't something you have on hand. My wife got a notice two days ago stating that they wanted, her SS records, bank statements, doctor's statements, pay records from my work, my daughter's SS records, appraisals of our vehicles, a signed statement from a bank officer detailing the current balance we owe on them and all other sorts of documentation. She had three non-business days to comply. Which means she had to fill out another form asking for an extension to complete the documentation.
The really interesting thing is they track my income through the State's unemployment tax system. Every time my pay changes in the most infinitesimal amounts they send out this same documentation order requiring all the stuff they want up to date as of the date of that form request. For example, something as simple as one paid holiday will trigger one of these requests. My employer has had to fill out 15 of these requests so far this year alone. Sometimes they request new documentation every other week if my hours at my job vary in any way say I work 36 hours one week and then 40 the next.
The only howling I hear is from bedwetters like you that think that such bullshit is a reasonable burden to impose on someone that has a debilitating chronic illness. I really feel for the elderly, those that don't have an able-bodied person to assist them and those that don't have the intellectual means to complete these forms multiple times a year all because of conservative assholes that think somebody might be getting an extra $10 they don't deserve.
