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Sunday, March 24, 2019

Social Security may use your Facebook and Instagram photos to nix disability claims

  • The Social Security Administration may start screening your Facebook and Instagram posts to evaluate your disability claim
  • Currently, the federal agency uses them to investigate fraud cases, but it's planning to expand that usage
  • Social media is considered a poor measure of a person's life, so the practice raises data privacy questions
Careful what you post online. The Social Security Administration may start screening your Facebook and Instagram posts to evaluate your disability claim. At the moment, the SSA's disability investigations units and the Office of the Inspector General use social media posts to flag fraudulent activity. However, in the 2020 budget proposal released Monday, the SSA said it's planning to expand that usage to review and evaluate applicants for disability benefits. SSA spokesperson Mark Hinkle said the work is "ongoing."

"We are evaluating how social media could be used by disability adjudicators in assessing the consistency and supportability of evidence in a claimant's case file," the agency said in the 2020 budget. 


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15 comments:

  1. This is nothing new!! Law enforcement has been doing it for years. Anybody dumb enough to put all their business out on social media deserves whatever they get

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  2. They won't use my facebook or instagram for nothing because I don't have either

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  3. So if you're waterskiing in your new $40,000 boat when you should be in a back brace and in physical therapy, look out.
    Will this also lower the number of bogus handicap tags out there?

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  4. Yeah if you can climb in and out of LOUD monster truck and waddle into Wal-Mart and hop on a shop around. You just might not be that disabled and just obese and lazy.

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  5. Turning into Russia !!!! Police State !!!!!

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  6. It's a good thing. Too many freeloaders with nothing wrong with them getting disability. Ones who really need and deserve it go through hell to get it.

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  7. Devil's Best tool = Computers & Internet !!!! & Cell Phone

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    1. Yes because 7:12 chiseled his post on a stone tablet.

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  8. America turning Communist , just a matter of When !!!!!

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  9. Everybody knows the fakers and I hope they get caught by any means. They are stealing benefits and need to be prosecuted.

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  10. The over controlling Govt's Love Computers / Cell Phones / Internet

    it is being used to control & enslave the population FACT !!!

    It IS being used against you / not for you !!! wake up people !!!!

    Things were much better & safer before all this crap came about !!!

    It all began in WW2 and now is in every person's LIFE !!!! Fact

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  11. LETS GET BACK ALL THAT $$$$$ STOLEN FROM OUR SOC SEC

    THE GOV'T HAS BEEN STEALING FROM IT SINCE THE 60'S When

    the POTUS was Johnson !!! ++++ Interest of course !!!!

    Put that on Facebook !!!!

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  12. Looks like the Biggest criminals are the ones after the criminals !!!

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