Senator: Non-English Speakers Qualify for Disability Benefits More Quickly
The inability to speak English is now considered a determining factor to receive federal disability benefits.
Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) sent a letter obtained exclusively by the Free Beacon to Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration Carolyn Colvin on Thursday, raising concerns regarding revelations that individuals who cannot speak English are fast-tracked for disability approval.
“I write to express my concerns about the expanding number of individuals now qualified for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and to raise a specific issue, the basis for many of these individuals’ disability classification, where the inability to speak English is a determinative factor,” Sessions said.
Sessions revealed a policy for SSDI payments that allows individuals to qualify for benefits more quickly if “they are incapable of communicating in English.”
The Social Security Act allows for the consideration of education when deciding if an individual is disabled. “The education factor is not limited to actual education as it relates to schooling, but includes a linguistic limitation on the ability to communicate in the English language,” Sessions said.
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It started with Jive, followed by Ebonics.
Don’t speak English, speak American.
…where my bennies?
Yep, the old routine still works 👿
Does my inability to understand why our government is so screwed up count as a disability? If so, they owe me years of benefits.
Quo mihi pecuniam!
شكرا لك الكفار لدعم ماليا الجهاد الشبح مسلم. الله أكبر.
You might know it. I speak English. Why can’t it be Spanish?
I don’t know shit about Spanish. No Hoblo is that close?
My Grandparents just rolled over in their graves
some how I cannot believe that non-English speaking people have paid into social security disability during their lives.
so why should they be getting payments?
USA for USA citizens not foreign invaders!
xenophobic? no just rational.
This won’t fly in Denmark or Russia. You speaka da’ language first, then we’ll talk, if that! Both are restructuring their immigration laws this year. But, then again, neither have a dear tanned leader who blames whitey for the problems of the world.