CONGRESS PUSHES SOCIAL SECURITY BACKWARD

"Lawmakers in the Congress are convinced that Social Security is awarding too many disability benefits.  They are pushing the agency to deny, deny, deny and are changing rules to make getting disability benefits harder and harder."

The media is also fueling the fire with reports about Social Security that are misleading, and in many cases, just outright wrong.

A good example is an April 2017 article in the Washington Post which asserts that as many as one-third of working-age adults in rural communities are living on monthly disability checks."  The truth is that data supposedly used by the Post to demonstrate this "fact" simply does not exist.

 Here is what I think we can expect in the months and years ahead:  Congress will pressure Social Security into new rules that make it more and more difficult to receive disability payments.  You will continue to pay into the federal disability program with less and less realistic hope of getting a benefit if you become unable to work.

In fact, the Washington Post did not stop at misrepresenting Social Security disability data.  They also called on Congress to completely revamp the Social Security program.


The disabled have few friends in Washington, DC these days. 

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