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Missouri Man Committed Social Security Disability Fraud

A recent incident of Social Security fraud in Missouri demonstrates some of the flaws in the Social Security Disability Insurance benefit (DIB) claims system. 

Southeast Missourian reports that Matthew H. Myers was recently charged with making a false statement to the Social Security Administration (SSA) regarding his disability benefit claims. 

According to Social Security disability guidelines, an individual is eligible to collect Social Security disability benefits if they have a lasting disability that prevents them from working enough to support themselves. 

Authorities said that Myers had applied for Social Security disability benefits in early 2001 and his claim had been accepted. It was later discovered that he had maintained a fulltime job that involved manual labor, even while accepting disability benefits. 

Myers had told the SSA that he was not employed and reported all of his job earnings under his wife's Social Security number. The SSA said it paid Myers $95,504 since 2001, when he first filed the claim. 

Meanwhile, there are many disabled individuals who are genuinely unable to work and support their families and who have been unfairly denied the Social Security DIB to which they are entitled. 

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