• SacralPlexus@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Don’t know who needs to hear this but I have seen variations of this story play out time and time again. Try and realize how much money it costs one of these companies over time when they pay out a disability claim and you will realize they are highly motivated to find a reason to get out of paying.

    What I’m saying is that if you have a disability claim you should just assume that a private investigator is going to be checking up on you. Act accordingly.

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      7 months ago

      Happened to my mum!

      She said she felt like someone was following her as she kept seeing a new car outside and she didn’t know who it belonged to.

      My sister who lives with her said she was crazy.

      Surprise surprise, few months later she gets a letter with pictures of her sometimes leaving the house saying they did an investigation.

      Since the pictures were mostly her limping heavily to take her service dog out to go to the bathroom it was fine.

      But yeah its no joke, but makes sense. My mom has been on disability near 10 years, that’s 400k+ in benefits paid out. Paying 2k for a private investigator only has to work a small percentage of the time to save money.

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        7 months ago

        Kind of weird that they would send the pictures when the result of the investigation was that the claim was legitimate.

        Or do they have to legally provide that info I don’t know how it works