Social Media Scans for Social Security Disability Private Investigations

Sometimes good people become hurt or become sick or injured in a variety of circumstances and situations. When good people become too injured or sick to work and are younger than sixty-five years old, they may qualify for special disability benefits to help them have more income to live on. For many people, they deserve Social Security disability payments, because they have truly become hurt or injured. Others just fake their injury or illness and want something for nothing. When this happens, governmental agencies and others hire a Social Security disability private investigator to help them decide on the person’s eligibility and overall qualifications.
Some of the most common situations and circumstances that lead people to apply for Social Security disability benefits or other social and private include, but are not limited to, the following:

Natural Illnesses:

Our disability private detective at our private investigation agency knows that sometimes humans just get sick. Whether the cause is genetic like cancer, pneumonia, long Covid, Alzheimer’s, dementia, influenza, etc., some can last for the long-term and can force people to stop working and living their lives to the fullest. When this occurs, people often apply for disability benefits to help them cover basic expenses like rent/mortgage, food, car payments, insurance, etc.

Injuries – Various Causes:

People can also become injured in a variety of situations for a plethora of reasons. These injuries can cause our clients to become disabled, either for a short or prolonged periods of time and thus unable to engage in meaningful employment. These can include, but are not limited to, the following:

Sports Injuries:

Some people have unfortunate accidents while playing sport in high school, college, on recreational teams, merely among friends, or even professionally. They may break their necks or sustain gradual injuries over time to their knees, backs, necks, hands, etc., that render them unable to work. These do not happen frequently where the person becomes partially or totally disabled, but they can certainly happen even on a shorter term or long-term basis or can even cause death.

If the injury is serious enough, the person or her/his/their parents may need to apply for Social Security disability benefits like SSI or SSDI to help secure financial assistance to help pay for basic bills. Indeed, many people who become permanently disabled due to an injury like this also. qualify for Medicare to cover the cost of their medical expenses. But what happens if it turns out they are just faking the injury, so they do not have to work?

Our Social Security disability private detective at our PI agency is more than happy to conduct Social Security private investigations to help determine if the person of interest (POI) is really injured from the sports injury or is just faking it. Our crackerjack legal staff has plenty of ways to help determine the truth of the matter, and that is no malarkey!

Car Accident Injuries

Auto accidents can also cause short-and-long-term injuries and disabilities, which can and sometimes do also cause death. They happen for a variety of reasons, like those from human error, drugs, etc. Slowly cars are beginning to have more accurate, less deadly robotic drivers, though this technology is still in its infancy stage and thus is not widely available.

Our personal injury attorneys and auto accident private detectives often oversee these types of cases, because often car insurance companies, workplaces, individuals, etc., end up footing both the medical bills and time off work. Social security disability and/or private disability insurance might also come into play, as can personal or government-funded health insurance.

Some people pretend being hurt more than they really are in car accidents, so they can collect more money and not have to work. They would rather sit back and collect insurance or Social Security disability payments, instead of working and using their talents to do good in the world. When this happens, our insurance fraud private detective has ways to expose the fraudster and return integrity to the government’s Social Security disability benefits program.

Workplace Injuries

People sometimes become injured on the job, whether through unsafe working conditions, negligence, or human error. It happens everywhere, though some types of job like the military, police officers, and those working on oil rig tend to have higher levels of injury and death. Workers’ Compensation insurance, private and governmental health insurance, and private short-and-long-term disability insurance can all help cover the costs of hospital stays, doctor visits, and lost income from accidents that happen at places of employment.

Our Workmen’s Compensation fraud private investigators often receive calls to investigate whether someone is truly injured or sick from a workplace accident or illness. If our legal team catches them out playing sports, lifting heavy objects, or working other jobs while out on disability leave, our private eyes will help catch them in the function as they conduct fraud private investigations.

Slip and Fall Accidents

Slip and fall accidents can also cause people to become unable to work, and if the store or other business tries to deny it, then it could complicate insurance and lost wages claims. This is especially true if it happened on a public road or in another location where the injured individual does not have an insurance policy to make a claim upon. Thus, Social Security disability insurance and payments become the main source of income for these individuals.

Other Everyday Life Injuries

There are plenty of other everyday injuries that can happen in one’s life, such as hang-gliding accidents, bar fights, rapes, armed robberies, wars, acts of nature like tornadoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes, bear attacks, and more that can render people unable to work. These can cause people to suffer real, permanent injuries that can make working impossible. They may thus have to rely upon Social Security disability payments, Workmen’s Compensation Insurance, and/or private disability insurance to help them get the funds they need so they can survive.

Once again, as with any social or private benefit that provides health care and/or financial incentives, the opportunity for abuse always exists. When this occurs, our private investigation agency can see if the person is really injured or just faking a bear attack injury. Our private detective agency near me has so many incredible ways to find out the truth to see if they are being honest or are committing Social Security disability insurance fraud.

Workplace Illnesses:

Workplace illnesses can also be another reason that some people become disabled and unable to work. Thus, they may need to secure benefits from governmental agencies like the U.S. Social Security Administration’s disability benefits or private disability insurance. Instance of workplace illnesses might be cancer from asbestos, black lung disease from coal mines, or long covid from the covid 19 pandemic that many nurses, physicians, and other front-line employees contracted while serving the public in the front lines during the pandemic.

When these employees are sick and in need of governmental assistance or financial and medical benefits, then they deserve their benefits. When fakers abuse the system and exaggerate the extent of their illnesses so they do not have to work, then it can cause people to lose faith in our governmental and private insurance programs that agencies and companies designed to protect people in need. Our social media private investigator at our private investigation agency helps ensure we catch these fraudsters, thus restoring faither and confidence back into these agencies and private companies.

Other Genetic or Acquired Disabilities

People can also have other acquired genetic disabilities, such as Down Syndrome, levels one and two autism, Huntington’s Disease, and other gene variants that can make working, schooling, and even basic work skills nearly or totally impossible. These are excellent examples of people who should easily qualify for Social Security disability benefits. When the disabilities are especially profound, there is no real reason for a Social Security disability private investigator from the best private investigation agency to conduct Social Security disability private investigations because these individuals cannot change how they are. It is genetically impossible, and unless and until gene editing like Crispr become more viable realities, these patients will have physicians who can vouch for them on their own.

Different Types of Disability Benefits:

To fully understand the types of social and private disability benefits available to people in the United States, our Social Security Income private investigators wish to fully explain what those types of benefits are and how to apply for them. Thus, the following is a succinct list of the most common disability benefits:

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)

Social Security Disability Insurance, also known is SSDI, is a governmental program that helps people who have earned enough work credits through years of working to receive benefits when they become disabled. The person does not need to be low-income to receive these benefits, but if they do not have enough work credits within the last ten years then they will not qualify to receive SSDI.

Social Security Income (SSI)

Social Security income helps people who do not have much money or property at all have extra financial resources to pay basic bills. Qualifying for this program does not depend on how much or how little a person makes or if the person has a disability. A person who receives this must have less than two thousand dollars in assets, which means it is mostly for those who are unhoused or have almost no money or property to their name.

Workers’ Compensation Insurance

Workers’ Compensation Insurance is a social benefit that most employers must pay for that covers employees who become injured while on the job. Others may elect to get private insurance that covers the same thing, and independent contractors and other small businesses may also elect to enroll in Workmen’s Compensation Insurance or to buy their own private insurance that provides similar benefits.

Much like Social Security Disability Insurance, this social benefit usually provides about seventy to eighty percent of the person’s monthly salary or wages to the person. This is enough to help them get by, but by paying less than what they normally get the aim is to prevent people from “not wanting to get better” and to encourage them to complete therapy and treatment so they can return to work when well. If these social and private programs paid the same amount as the employee received while working, they would lose their incentive to return to work.

Private Short-Term Disability Insurance

Some companies also private offer short-term disability insurance, so that companies can enroll their employees in it. These businesses can also elect to offer this benefit to their staff if they voluntarily enroll in it and pay fees from payroll deductions each month, or employees may find their own short-term disability insurance on their own. This insurance usually kicks in on day one, and it often lasts for about ninety days. Thereafter, these injured workers who are not covered by Workers’ Compensation Insurance will need to have enrolled in a long-term disability insurance policy.

Please keep in mind that some of these insurance companies, like the private companies that offer long term disability insurance we shall discuss below, can be unscrupulous, and often like to deny claims to avoid paying out money and unjustly to make the CEOs and investors rich. This is yet another pitfall of trusting insurance to help protect you, so the buyers must beware to choose their disability insurance company and policy carefully.

Private Long-Term Disability Insurance

Much like with short-term disability private insurance that some private companies offer, long-term disability insurance helps provide money for injured workers who require tine off work and thus financial assistance for a longer period. This insurance usually kicks in after ninety days. Thereafter, long-term disability insurance tends to be activated if the injured worker has a policy, and the short-term insurance benefits cease.

Medicare Insurance for Persons with Disabilities

Medicare is an insurance for people in the USA who have reached sixty-five years of age and those who have become disabled. People who qualify for SSDI automatically qualify for Medicare, and those who qualify for SSI qualify for Medicaid. Those who are disabled and have less than two thousand dollars to their name can receive both Medicaid and Medicare.

Medicaid Insurance for People with Lower Incomes

Medicaid Insurance provides insurance for those who have lower amounts of income. These people can be of any age, because it is a needs-based program and is not dependent upon having a certain disability. Medicaid helps ensure that people get health services they need, even if they cannot afford to pay.

Appeals Process for Social Security Disability Benefits:

Sadly, both these governmental programs and private insurance companies can unjustly deny claimants who rightfully need and deserve Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), SSI, Medicare, and Medicaid. In fact, many private companies and governmental agencies alike tend to deny most claims the first time around. This is a cost-cutting measure and is designed to make it hard for people to receive the benefits they need. Meanwhile, politicians – especially Republican – gladly give all sorts of corporate welfare via tax breaks to billionaires and trillionaires.
Many governmental agencies and private insurance companies force claimants to hire Social Security Disability Insurance attorneys. These lawyers in turn hire digital private investigators and medical doctors to help their clients win their cases. If successful, these attorneys get a percentage of the backpay these private insurance companies and governmental agencies owed their clients for the period they had wrongfully denied their claims.

How Social Security Disability Insurance Private Detective Can Help:

There are many types of things that insurance fraud private detectives at our PI agency can do to help governmental agencies, private insurance companies, and claimants appealing their disability benefit denials get the legal justice they need. When working in conjunction with our disability appeals attorneys, we can often have higher levels of success. Some of the many things our private investigation agency can do to help include, but are not limited to, the following:

Social Media Scan Private Investigations:

Our social media private investigators can conduct digital private investigations on people to see what their online presence says about their alleged disability. If we find photos and videos of “hurt” people out playing sports, lifting heaving objects, etc., then it will not bode well for them. Damning social media photos of heavy physical activity can immediately torpedo a disability insurance claim, and if they exist our digital private investigators will find them.

Disability lawyers often hire us to verify that their clients really have a solid case that governmental agencies cannot come back on them at and thus waste their time and their clients’ time. Likewise, governmental agencies and private insurance companies hire a private investigator at our private eye agency to help limit their financial losses and maintain the integrity and well-being of their institutions by having us independently verify the physical activity levels of their claimants. If indeed a person is faking it, the cost that governmental agencies and private insurance companies alike will save by choosing to find the best Workers’ Compensation Insurance fraud private investigator is always less than the cost of that they would have paid out for a continued, fraudulent disability claim.

Surveillance Private Investigations:

Surveillance private investigations can also provide great benefits to Social Security Disability attorneys, governmental agencies, and private insurance companies alike. Our surveillance private investigator can follow the claimant around to see what she/he/they is/are doing on a day-to-day basis. If the person is truly hurt, the individual will engage in minimal physical movement and may even use a walker, cane, or wheelchair. If they are out skiing, running, or lifting heavy objects, etc., it will not bode well for their financial claim as a person with a disability.

Nationwide Civil & Criminal Background Checks:

Nationwide civil and criminal background checks are also something our Workmen’s Compensation fraud private detective can do to help find if someone is faking a disability claim. When used in conjunction with our other investigative techniques, civil background checks and criminal background checks are great because they can find out if the claimant has a criminal history that includes crimes of deception like fraud, forgery, etc. If a person does have a criminal record that includes these types of crimes, it may indicate their willingness to fake a disability claim.

When it comes to the civil background check side, this report can show vital tidbits of information like judgments, liens, bankruptcies, etc. If a person has many financial problems, it can point to a motive to lie to get money. Our skip tracers at our private investigation agency in Oklahoma are experts at finding this information out for our clients.