CONCORD — An Effingham woman was sentenced to five years of probation for making false statements to obtain Social Security disability benefits, New Hampshire's U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray announced Thursday.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Valerie Rondeau, 59, received Supplemental Security Income (“SSI”) benefits for over 16 years prior to her marriage in May 2013. She continued to receive these benefits after she wed, but Rondeau did not report her marriage or her shared living arrangement to the Social Security Administration. Instead, Rondeau took active steps to conceal her marriage and living arrangement.
Heaven forbid someone should be able to collect from a system rigged against all of us who paid into it. Good for her for being able to get something from those greedy buggers. Proving disability is nigh impossible, but then to have your partner's, spouse's, or mere housemate's income count against that disability payment is absurd. We pay into this system from the time we begin work, but getting anything back is a blipping miracle. Something needs to change, but no one in a position to do so is willing.
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Heaven forbid someone should be able to collect from a system rigged against all of us who paid into it. Good for her for being able to get something from those greedy buggers. Proving disability is nigh impossible, but then to have your partner's, spouse's, or mere housemate's income count against that disability payment is absurd. We pay into this system from the time we begin work, but getting anything back is a blipping miracle. Something needs to change, but no one in a position to do so is willing.
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