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Disability Beneficiaries Hit New Record: 10,996,447
2014 May 20, 3:53am 12,468 views 39 comments
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The system is being abused today.
People are going on disability after their unemployment runs out.
So, 11 million on disability, 9 million unemployed (officially) 92 million out of the workforce.
What could possibly go wrong??
Vicente
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2014 May 20, 2:45pm
The number of Americans receiving disability benefits continues to exceed the populations of Greece, Tunisia and Portugal, and is approaching the population of Cuba, which according to the CIA World Factbook is 11,047,251.
Hmmm, let's compare with countries a fraction of our size. OK then, what's the disability per capita in those countries?
I don't know. I read that Greece considers pedophilia a disability, but they do have a certain history there....
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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/10996447-disability-beneficiaries-hit-new-record
(CNSNews.com) - The total number of disability beneficiaries in the United States rose from 10,981,423 in March to 10,996,447 in April, setting a new all-time record, according to newly released data from the Social Security Administration.
The number of Americans receiving disability benefits continues to exceed the populations of Greece, Tunisia and Portugal, and is approaching the population of Cuba, which according to the CIA World Factbook is 11,047,251.
The 10,996,447 total disability beneficiaries includes 8,942,232 disabled workers, 153,475 spouses of disabled workers, and 1,900,740 children of disabled workers.
None of those individual categories of beneficiaries set a record in April, but the combination of all three was the highest it has ever been in the history of the disability program.
The number of disabled workers peaked at 8,942,584 in December—with 352 more workers receiving disability than in April.