Beware of posting that vacation selfie on social media. It could cost you your social security disability claim if you find yourself unable to work.

While the Social Security Administration already checks what is put on sites like Facebook and Instagram to weed out fraud, the federal agency announced on Monday that they’re expanding their investigations.

In the SSA’s 2020 budget proposal, spokesperson Mark Hinkle said, “We are evaluating how social media could be used by disability adjudicators in assessing the consistency and supportability of evidence in a claimant’s case file.”

Jennifer King, director of consumer privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, criticized the idea of checking on what people share on social media noting, “They present an extremely narrow slice of someone’s life.”

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-disability-benefits-your-facebook-instagram-posts-could-affect-your-social-security-disability-claim/