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How should Social Security define disability?
(By – JASON RUSSELL, www.washingtonexaminer.com)
According to Social Security’s Disability Insurance program, there are only two kinds of disability: completely disabled or not. But in reality, disability is more complex than that. The program’s failure to account for this is a disservice to those whom the program is supposed to serve, as it hampers their ability to go back to work.
“There’s a lot of complexity, a lot of concern, and a lot of uncertainty about how to manage as a disabled person getting benefits, being able to work and how to go back to work,” Jason Fichtner, a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, said at an August conference organized by the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative. Read more…