Agree, how about L & I, 80 percent of your gross wage untaxed, while there are many who deserve this compensation there are the scammers who ride the system for years. We laid a guy off, six weeks latter he reports he was injured on the job. He recieved 4 operations to fix his shoulder, of coarse his qauck doctor did retakes on three of these procedures, but why would he let the same doctor work on his shoulder 4 times. This guy was nearly 2.5 years off work, you would have thought he was carried off the job.
This is what is wrong with this state, entitlement after entitlement.
I hope none of my sled bros get and idea to take the winter off this way, they the employer have the motivation to hire PI's. Hmm, not bad thought get paid to ride the deep and steep while looking for a L & I fraud perpetrator, maybe a new line of buisness for this community.
Because once a doctor does surgery on you (especially L&I) and the surgery doesn't fix it, no other doctor wants to look at you, touch it, or get involved
period. Been there, done that. Many doctors won't even do L&I surgeries because of how little they reimburse the doc and the stupid paper work involved. It seems some are in it for the money to milk L&I, not to fix people. All the while, the injured person looks like $hit. The extended time frames come from L&I stalling, asking for lame reports and tests, changing of claims managers, etc.
Not all of these kinds of cases are the injured persons fault. I would never question a person claiming pain or injury. I've also been on the business ownership side of having an employee for only 2 weeks and letting him go because he was worthless only to have him file a claim 9 months later were he alleged to have injured his back stating a date of injury that was 3 months AFTER he was laid off. I protested it, they still awarded him. Hired a PI to document and video him R&R'ing engines and transmissions and steelhead fishing while on timeloss. L&I didn't care, wouldn't even look at the video and reports. DR said he had a degenerative disc disease. Made my L&I rates go from $1.84 an hour to $3.54 an hour. And this was in 1999. It absolutey Killed me financially.
Then after all of that and being on timeloss for 5 years, L&I finally kicked him off and he applied for unemployment. I Protested that, and they still gave it to him. Oh well.
People like that eventually get what they have coming to them in life. It doesn't do anything good for the honest people to worry about it.
As for the OP's thread, everybody likes the idea of drug testing welfare recipients. Does anybody care about the extra money it will cost?