Editorial: Social Security needs to clean its disability rolls
(Source - The Albuquerque Journal)
The Social Security disability program is set to go broke in October 2016 – in large part because, for a decade, benefits being paid out have outstripped payroll taxes being paid in. But it certainly doesn’t help that the agency is shelling out billions in fraudulent payments. A 10-year study by the Social Security Administration’s inspector general found nearly half of the 9 million people receiving disability payments were overpaid – some made too much money to qualify for benefits, some were no longer disabled, some were in prison or dead. Read more…
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