Cute idea for a law protecting disability benefits

I just came up with a great idea for a law to protect Americans who need disability benefits.

Like Medicaid, disability programs like Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance are earned benefits - not welfare. Even if they were welfare, the government has no right to deny these benefits to those who qualify. Every so often, you'll read an article about how the government's backlog for approving disability claims keeps expanding. What used to take weeks can now take years. It's not because more people are applying. It's because Congress intentionally creates a logjam to try to deny people the benefits they've earned.

I can almost guarantee that one way to make sure this backlog is relieved is to pass a law that says if claims aren't approved within a certain amount of time, the claim is automatically approved. To ensure that no claims are rejected at the last minute, rejected claims would be automatically appealed.

If there's already a law like this, the government sure as hell isn't obeying it.

Such a policy would not only break the logjam but also make sure more people get the benefits they've worked for that they otherwise might not get.

I don't give a damn what the right-wing intelligentsia thinks. If you want to live in a society that won't take care of its most downtrodden people, m-o-v-e MOVE!!!