The thing is that people who really, REALLY do need disability sometimes do not get it. My brother had 2 major heartattacks and filed. The first one he had at age 40, died for 3 minutes and was brought back. Luckily, he was training at a police academy at the time so they had a paramedic there. The second time he was able to get help from an abulance pretty quickly.
He filed for disability for he could not even walk to his mailbox. He was able to get a heart transplant but felt that a younger person then him should have first dibs on one and that someone should not have to die for him to live. We had to fight with oklahoma red tape for 3 years to get his disability. They finally ok'd it one month after he passed away of his 3rd and final heart attack. The stress of worrying about bills, his medicine he couldn't afford, bills from doctors, his 3 children to raise, and trying to get some kind of income got to him.
Even with his doctors writing letters to those people it still took 3 years. I finally wrote to the Governer's office, and several other DHS offices several times explaining everything. Not sure if this is what got it through or not but they wrote me back saying they would check into it and then it was ok'd but to late for him.
People do work the system and should not for there are so many that do need it.