Another Obama Record… 10.9 Million Americans Are Now on Disability

Gateway Pundit ^ | January 2, 2014 | Jim Hoft

[Hojczyk]

The number of Americans on disability now exceeds the number of people in New York City. More than 5.4 million workers and their dependents have signed up to collect federal disability checks since President Obama took office.

10,988,269 are now receiving federal disability benefits. CNS News reported:

The total number of people in the United States now receiving federal disability benefits hit a record 10,988,269 in December, up from the previous record of 10,982,920 set in November, according to newly released data from the Social Security Administration.

The average monthly benefit paid to a disabled worker also hit a record of $1,146.43 in December, up from a previous high of $1,130.34 in December of last year.

Spouses of disabled workers also got a record average monthly benefit of $308.13 in December, up from a previous high of $304.31 in August. Children of disabled workers also received a record average monthly benefit of $341.42 in December, up from a previous high of $337.13 in May.

As CNSNews.com reported earlier this month, the number of Americans getting disability benefits now exceeds the entire population of Greece, which is 10,772,967, according to the CIA World Factbook.

The record 10,988,269 total disability beneficiaries in December, included a record 8,942,584 disabled workers (up from 8,941,660 in November), 1,888,624 children of disabled workers, and 157,061 spouses of disabled workers.

For the record… Improper disability payments distributed from December 2010 to January 2013 cost the tax payers $1.3 billion.

[TurboZamboni]

[vekzen]

I wonder what the racial and gender breakdown of these numbers would reveal.

[brownsfan]

As much as I want to, and like to blame Obama, there is more to this. This is a very sick society.

[animal172]

Another record they are proud of. More low information voters on the public doe. SSDI has to be the most corrupt system in the government. Got a headache? Apply now and apply often. Eventually you’ll be awarded your lifetime benefit.

[babble-on]

You’re right. This is a deep sickness, but it’s “enabled” by all of us who are willing to put up with it.

[kabar]

Social Security’s Disability Insurance (DI) program satisfies neither the Trustees’ long-range test of close actuarial balance nor their short-range test of financial adequacy and faces the most immediate financing shortfall of any of the separate trust funds. DI Trust Fund reserves expressed as a percent of annual cost (the trust fund ratio) declined to 85 percent at the beginning of 2013, and the Trustees project trust fund depletion in 2016, the same year projected in the last Trustees Report. DI cost has exceeded non-interest income since 2005, and the trust fund ratio has declined since peaking in 2003. While legislation is needed to address all of Social Security’s financial imbalances, the need has become most urgent with respect to the program’s DI component. Lawmakers need to act soon to avoid reduced payments to DI beneficiaries three years from now.

[ltc8k6]

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/01/another-obama-record-10-9-million-americans-are-now-on-disability/

[MrB]

Those POOR PEOPLE!
I feel sorry for them...

Well, I feel sorry for the ACTUAL disabled who will get painted with the same brush as those who are DILOAJ (Disabled in lieu of a job).

[MrB]

Sounds like Cloward-Piven in action.

[EagleUSA]

The Obama dependency society grows....more votes, more power, more control. Marxism is a beautiful thing.

[Logical me]

Disability is now fast becoming another welfare system for thousands of able body. I want and hope that those really needing disability for a real circumstance get what they need to better their lives.

[lurk]

Disability. Another way to spell fraud.

[pepsi_junkie]

This is a death spiral. We cannot continue forever with half the country paying no taxes and ever increasing amounts of people living as wards of the state. It’s not “sustainable”, to borrow Obama’s favorite word. I think we are probably past the point of a soft landing on this already.

[Venturer]

Doesn’t matter ,I would bet that 80% of them are fraudulent.

[Salvation]

Why?

[Graybeard58]

I wonder what the racial and gender breakdown of these numbers would reveal.

I know only a few black people, fellow church members, none of whom are on disability. Not knowing many black people, that's not making much of an observation about them.

On the other hand, I know plenty of white people who are on S.S.D.I and S.S.I., some I would deem desereving, some not so much.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I was about to make the same comment. The time when maily blacks lived off government relief is long past. Lazy whites have gotten on the government handout gravy train too. Every race and ethnic group now thinks its OK to live off government handouts and its why the country is swirling down the toilet.

[blueunicorn6]

Yes, being unsure of your gender is now a disability. In the good old days, they just went into show business.