A Disability Epidemic [RIP-OFF] Among a Railroad’s Retirees

Print

Virtually every career employee — as many as 97 percent in one recent year — applies for and gets disability payments soon after retirement, a computer analysis of federal records by The New York Times has found. Since 2000, those records show, about a quarter of a billion dollars in federal disability money has gone to former L.I.R.R. employees, including about 2,000 who retired during that time.

More...

TVNL Comment: This is one of the biggest disability rip-offs ever.  See if it gets any air time.