Senator questions benefits to ‘adult baby’

Senator questions benefits to ‘adult baby’

Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican and the Senate’s top waste-watcher, asked the agency’s inspector general to look into 30-year-old Stanley Thornton Jr. and his roommate, Sandra Dias, who acts as his “mother,” saying it’s not clear why they are collecting Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits instead of working.

“Given that Mr. Thornton is able to determine what is appropriate attire and actions in public, drive himself to complete errands, design and custom-make baby furniture to support a 350-pound adult and run an Internet support group, it is possible that he has been improperly collecting disability benefits for a period of time,” Mr. Coburn wrote in a letter Monday to Inspector General Patrick P. O'Carroll Jr.

The request comes at a time when members of Congress are struggling to cut budgets and weed out waste to try to bring down the staggering deficit, and comes just days after Social Security’s trustees released a grim assessment of the program’s long-term financial health.

SSI is run by Social Security and pays out benefits to aged, blind and disabled people who have little or no income.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/17/senator-questions-benefits-to-adult-baby/

like protecting Oil Corporation subsidies.

until we solve THAT problem. And there is an awful lot of it too.

of course there is a certain amount of fraud in any program. But that doesn't mean we should shut it down. We just need to hire more "green eye shade" accountants instead of laying them off to save a few dollars.

wow, if all our senators did this, we'd catch 100 cheats!

Waaaaaa.

Seriously gross, both him and his "caregiver."

Coburn's right. He's demogoguing it to hell and back for his own political purpose, but this loser shouldn't be on SSI.

That should be interesting.