But the pool of working-age government disability recipients may be even larger than those getting funds just from the Social Security disability programs alone.
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The Social Security disability program was created in the 1950s to help Americans who were no longer able to work.
Baxter handled her situation well, says Patricia Owens, a former associate commissioner of the Social Security disability program.
The Social Security Disability Insurance system has more than 10 million beneficiaries.
OK, but how should conservatives reform the Social Security Disability (SSD) program, which is clearly being used as an early retirement program by many people who could work?
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The sharp deterioration in the job market during the downturn also seems to have affected applications to the Social Security Disability Insurance program, which rose to 2.94 million last year, up from 2.19 million in 2007.
But this pension system is ripe for common-sense reforms, including changing eligibility ages and benefit structures for those with greater means, ridding the Social Security disability program of pervasive fraud, and removing disincentives for those who would rather work in their later years.
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According to the Social Security Administration, the number of working-age Americans relying on Social Security's disability programs has increased dramatically over the past two generations.
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The only item that looms larger than disability benefit in the social-security budget is spending on the elderly, which accounts for 42% of the total.
It is plain to see that permanently stagnant labor markets are making Social Security disability the new unemployment benefit.
Meantime, during the years CMHCs were funded, Medicaid and Medicare were created and modifications were made to the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance programs.
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Girls with autism, however, showed the opposite pattern: Those who focused relatively more to the eyes tended to experience worse social disability, said Jennifer Moriuchi, an Emory psychology graduate student.
Given that disability benefits account for around a quarter of the total social-security bill, substantial savings would be possible from focusing disability benefits on genuinely disabled people.
After his May 1981 recommendations were rejected, President Reagan proposed a makeshift bargain: the Greenspan commission would be appointed to recommend what ought to be done by Dec. 31, 1982, and, to keep the fund from running dry before then, Social Security should be given permission to borrow from the disability and Medicare funds.
The reductions came as the number of people on Social Security's two disability programs was growing.
The amount of eye contact from the boys related directly to their overall level of social disability.
Millions more have quit the workforce altogether, subsisting on disability pensions or other social benefits.
The deficit-reduction deal's spending caps contain an exemption for the Social Security Administration that could allow the agency to quickly ramp up its reviews of recipients' continuing eligibility for disability benefits.
As is well known now, Nadya Suleman, a 33-year-old single mother of six surviving on food stamps and Social Security disability payments, gave birth to the nation's first set of octuplets on Jan. 26, bringing her total brood to 14.
For every 17 people in the labor force, there is now one recipient of Social Security disability program payments.
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Today, all the money he receives from his early pension, Social Security and disability pays for his nursing home.
The defendants, according to prosecutors, held the four victims in subhuman conditions in a scheme to steal Social Security disability payments.
The Social Security Administration says its job isn't to police firms that represent disability applicants.
Nonetheless, disability benefits should offer the government the best chance to meet its pledge to cut social-security spending.
After a fight with the Social Security Administration and a letter from one of his senators, Rubin finally qualified for government disability payments from Social Security.
Brenner got a social worker to help Hendricks apply for disability insurance, so that he could leave the chaos of welfare motels, and have access to a consistent set of physicians.
In our generous society, the bottom fifth does receive a lot of transfer income from government programs, such as Social Security retirement and disability payments, federal, state and local welfare programs, education assistance, etc.
Many are perfectly happy with the low wage (some even try to bargain me down, to try to avoid interference with Social Security and disability limits).
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The accounts could then be further expanded to allow substitution of private life insurance for Social Security survivors benefits, and private disability insurance for Social Security disability benefits.
At a time when experiences of disability are becoming politicised by changes to social security benefits, some feel that inspirational figures drawn from the ranks of celebrity obscure the real challenges faced by disabled people.
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