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Posted 411 days ago in Government by Richard Dahl  |   Comments
Couple Considers Divorce to Keep Disability Checks Coming

A Freeport, Ill. couple has decided to get divorced after 21 years of marriage because the wife’s new job would mean that the husband’s disability payments would be severely cut.  David and Lois Fisher told the Freeport Journal-Standard that they’d been living at poverty level since David broke his back in three places in 2000, relying on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments for his disability.   In 2005, when Lois lost her job, the couple were forced to move into a …

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