They can just deem it paid.
What percentage of the payments is made to fraudulent claims?
Congress is largely populated by misfits and cowards.
The social Security system is fine. Here is the promise from 1984! You do TRUST the Government programs don’t you? (Snark)
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/ssa/usa1964-2.html
Self-Supporting
“The program is designed so that contributions plus interest on the investments of the social security trust funds will be sufficient to meet all of the costs of benefits and administration, now and into the indefinite future—without any subsidy from the general funds of the Government.
Both the Congress and the Executive Branch, regardless of political party in power, have scrupulously provided in advance for full financing of all liberalizations in the program.”
And HERE is where YOUR money goes! Read and weep!
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/ProgData/fundFAQ.html#n4
psssst.
Remember when clintoon “ended welfare as we know it”?
Revert to the disability laws of 1991 and see what happens to this problem.
(As with most things the bent one ‘accomplished’ the way to end something is just to hide it someplace else.)