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Social Security Disability Demographics in Rural America

Summary: Document examines several employment statistics and rates of disability in certain rural areas of the United States. “The risk of experiencing a form of disability rises sharply as a person ages. The average beneficiary of SSDI is in their late middle age; 70% are over the age of 50, while 30% are over the age of 60.” Document Detail: The year 1957 found the Social Security Disability system beginning as a way to help people who were too ill to work. By the year 2009, greater than 9.6 million people in the United States were counted as being disabled. The rates of disability in rural areas of the United States are 80% higher than they are in the cities of this nation. Read more

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