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That is untrue. Social security has work incentives. You can earn money at work up to a certain threshold with no reduction. After the threshold, you check is reduced, roughly speaking, by one dollar for every two you earn. If you maintain gainful employment your eligibility begins to phase out. If your disability rears it's ugly head and you are no longer able to maintain employment you are fast tracked back to where you were, during an extended period of eligibility.

If one is working a fruitful job and earning pay that exceeds the income eligibility limit along with it, you obviously aren't any longer disabled and are obviously no longer financially in need. it isn't a punishment. But talk like that is red meat for the "fraud and abuse" crowd.