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Social Security Disability Fund A Last Resort For The Unemployed As Benefits Dry Up
As more jobless people run out of unemployment insurance, they are turning to a last resort to make ends meet: government disability benefits.
Two new studies cited by The Wall Street Journal find that when jobless Americans exhaust their unemployment benefits, they turn to Social Security disability benefits to survive. The number of Americans receiving Social Security disability benefits has risen to 10.6 million since 2002 -- an increase of 47 percent, the WSJ reports.
With more and more people coming to depend on Social Security, the program's long-term prospects are starting to seem endangered. Most people who start receiving disability insurance stay in the program until they retire, and the average person in the disability program ultimately receives more than $240,000 in benefits, according to a 2006 study by economists David Autor and Mark Duggan cited by the White House's Council of Economic Advisers.
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But, of course, anything that counters Ed's view of the world as seen through his bellybutton since his head is so far up his ass, is a lie.
Is it any wonder we don't believe his claims about being a scientist ?
As more jobless people run out of unemployment insurance, they are turning to a last resort to make ends meet: government disability benefits.
Two new studies cited by The Wall Street Journal find that when jobless Americans exhaust their unemployment benefits, they turn to Social Security disability benefits to survive. The number of Americans receiving Social Security disability benefits has risen to 10.6 million since 2002 -- an increase of 47 percent, the WSJ reports.
With more and more people coming to depend on Social Security, the program's long-term prospects are starting to seem endangered. Most people who start receiving disability insurance stay in the program until they retire, and the average person in the disability program ultimately receives more than $240,000 in benefits, according to a 2006 study by economists David Autor and Mark Duggan cited by the White House's Council of Economic Advisers.
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But, of course, anything that counters Ed's view of the world as seen through his bellybutton since his head is so far up his ass, is a lie.
Is it any wonder we don't believe his claims about being a scientist ?