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Social Security Disability Benefits
The Disability aspect of the Social Security System is expected to run out of funding a full decade before the retirement aspect in 2022. This is the reason that there was recently a cut in benefits payed out by 19% to 11 million recipients. Fraud is a big problem in this system and is a constant drain on resources. Because it covers a wider range of cases than Social Security does, it is much harder to come up with a fix to the problem. There are many shortcomings in this system and most do not have easy fixes that would not harm those that are on disability for legitimate reasons. For more information on this topic, visit this article by Eric Pienin with The Fiscal Times.
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