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  • Disability Ranks Continue to Surge Under Obama

    04/05/2013 8:24:13 AM PDT · by IBD editorial writer · 9 replies
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | 04/05/2013 | John Merline
    Almost as many people signed up with the federal government's permanent worker disability program as got jobs in March, according to two sets of government data, continuing a troubling trend throughout the Obama recovery. Last month, 81,804 workers left the workforce to join the Social Security Disability Insurance program. So far this year, nearly a quarter million workers have joined the program. Over the past four years, 4 million left the workforce to go on disability. Even after accounting for those who dropped out of the program because of death or retirement, the ranks of the disabled have shot up...
  • Disability Trust Fund Ran Record $31.2B Deficit in 2012; In Deficit Every Year Under Obama

    04/04/2013 12:48:05 PM PDT · by Nachum · 12 replies
    CNS News ^ | 4/3/13 | Terence P. Jeffrey
    (CNSNews.com) - The federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, which takes in money via a federal payroll tax and pays it out in disability benefits, ran a record $31.2 billion deficit in calendar year 2012, according to the Social Security Administration. That means the trust fund has run a deficit in each of the first four years of the Obama presidency. For fifteen straight years before Obama took office—from 1994 through 2008—the Disability Insurance Trust Fund ran a surplus. In 2007, for example, it ran an $11 billion surplus and in 2008 it ran an $889-million surplus.
  • 8,853,614: Americans on Disability Hits Another Record; Exceeds 3x Population of Chicago

    04/04/2013 12:44:50 PM PDT · by Nachum · 12 replies
    CNS News ^ | 4/3/13 | Terence P. Jeffrey
    (CNSNews.com) - The number of American workers collecting federal disability payments climbed to yet another record of 8,853,614 in March, up from 8,840,427 in February, according to newly released data from the Social Security Administration. That means there are more than 3 times as many Americans taking disability payments as there are people living in the city of Chicago, which according to the Census Bureau has a population of 2,707,120. March was the 194th straight month that the number of American workers collecting federal disability payments increased. The last time the number of Americans collecting disability decreased was in January...
  • The right is Furious at How Much Disability the Right is Claiming (Barf Alert)

    04/03/2013 1:12:08 PM PDT · by NOVACPA · 11 replies
    The AtlanticWire ^ | April 2, 2013 | Philip Bump
    The greatest irony here is that those older arthritics fall into another group besides "most likely to file for disability". That group is "the Republican party". Here's how people in different age groups voted in 2012.
  • Social Security Disability Cuts

    04/03/2013 4:54:18 AM PDT · by hondact200 · 50 replies
    myself | April 3, 2013 | myself
    To all freepers on social security disability, when checking my direct deposit into bank account. I was reduced by $136.65. Has this happened to anyone else.
  • Is Disability the New Welfare? Large numbers of Americans are applying for disability benefits.

    04/03/2013 6:44:48 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    National Review ^ | 04/03/2013 | Jonah Goldberg
    The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an “incapacity benefit” — through a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too disabled to work. A third of recipients (878,000 people) didn’t even bother and dropped out of the program rather than be examined. Of those tested, more than half (55 percent) were found fit for work, and a quarter were found fit for some work. But that’s Britain, where there’s a long tradition of gaming the dole. Americans would never think of...
  • Rhode Island parents moved to tears after Pope Francis kisses their disabled son, 8,

    04/02/2013 1:42:08 PM PDT · by envisio · 30 replies
    DM ^ | 4/2/13 | Daily Mail Reporter
    A Rhode Island couple has revealed how they were moved to tears when Pope Francis kissed their disabled eight-year-old son in front of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday. Paul and Christina Gondreau of Johnston and their five children, including son Dominic who suffers from cerebral palsy, attended Easter Mass at the Vatican. An usher directed Dominic and his mother to an area designated for handicapped children, said Paul Gondreau, a theology professor at Providence College who is teaching this semester in Rome. When the pope's vehicle arrived, the usher motioned to the driver to stop...
  • Can A Nation Built By Giants Survive Nanny State Paternalism? The Numbers Don’t Look Good…

    04/01/2013 10:11:44 AM PDT · by Starman417 · 9 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 04-01-13 | Vince
    While US Constitution and free market capitalism set the the foundations for American prosperity, it took a rugged, passionate, free people to build it. From George Washington to George Washington Carver to millions of other Americans, the United States was carved out a continent of forests that seemed to go on forever, fertile plains, vast mountain ranges and scorching hot deserts.  Over time American frontiersmen and settlers forged a country that seemed to have all of God’s blessings in abundance. Conditions were rarely easy for most Americans throughout most of our history. Coal miners spent 12 – 16 hour shifts...
  • NY cop nailed for touring with band while on disability

    03/29/2013 9:14:07 PM PDT · by Altariel · 10 replies
    MSN ^ | March 28, 2013 | Barbara Goldberg
    Videos showed Christopher Inserra, a New York police officer on disability for an arm injury, flailing both arms while performing with his heavy metal band, Cousin Sleaze, according to court documents. He was charged Tuesday with mail fraud. NEW YORK — A New York police officer was charged Tuesday with mail fraud for allegedly claiming disability benefits for two years while at the same time performing and touring with his heavy metal band, Cousin Sleaze, according to court documents. Christopher Inserra, an officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was the lead singer with the Brooklyn...
  • Has disability become a 'de facto welfare program'?

    03/28/2013 9:35:53 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 67 replies
    NBC News ^ | March 28, 2013 | Barbara Raab
    When President Clinton signed "welfare reform" into law in 1996, he promised to end welfare as we know it. Now, some new reporting suggests we've created a new kind of welfare -- only most Americans aren't aware of it. The number of people who depend on checks from Social Security's disability programs has soared in recent years, according to NPR's series "Unfit for Work: the Startling Rise of Disability in America." The reports, which began over the weekend and continue this week, raise the question: How disabled are the recipients, really? As you might imagine, they have touched a nerve....
  • Unfit for Work

    03/24/2013 8:11:51 AM PDT · by Theoria · 69 replies
    NPR ^ | 22 Mar 2013 | Chana Joffe-Walt
    The startling rise of disability in America In the past three decades, the number of Americans who are on disability has skyrocketed. The rise has come even as medical advances have allowed many more people to remain on the job, and new laws have banned workplace discrimination against the disabled. Every month, 14 million people now get a disability check from the government. The federal government spends more money each year on cash payments for disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined. Yet people relying on disability payments are often overlooked in discussions of the...
  • Celebrating Bella: Our Gift From God

    03/19/2013 12:36:26 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 5 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | March 19, 2013 | Rick Santorum
    March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb. That's how the saying goes. And oh, how it rings true for my family. It is Lent, of course, a time for the faithful to pray, sacrifice and fast. And it is in our prayerful reflections and daily acts that we prepare ourselves for Easter and new life. March is also Trisomy Awareness Month. For my family, this has become a time to celebrate the life of our daughter Bella. Bella was born almost five years ago with trisomy 18, a severe genetic condition that I believe makes every...
  • I Was a Danged Fool!

    03/14/2013 2:02:18 PM PDT · by Oscar in Batangas · 29 replies
    N/A | Unpublished | Self
    I Was a Danged Fool! For twenty-two or so years before my retirement I had chronic back pain -- sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. When the pain was enough to take my breath away, I’d swallow a few ibuprofens, acetaminophens, or whatever over-the-counter pain relief I had on hand and carefully hobble off to work. Once or twice I self-prescribed bed rest for a day. But generally, if I could make it to the breakfast table, I could make it to work, figuring that the pain would subside as the day wore on. It NEVER ONCE occurred to me...
  • US Vet Fighting With Syrian Rebels Got Full Disability Pay, His Dad Says

    03/13/2013 1:55:17 AM PDT · by Libloather · 21 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 3/12/13 | Geoffrey Ingersoll
    Eric Harroun is an Arizona native who rioted with rebels in Cairo and fought in Syria for Al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Al Nusra. **SNIP** Harroun's descent into Islamic fanaticism seems to have begun sometime after his discharge from the military. With seemingly no way to pursue his lifelong dream of being a soldier, he fell in with two Iraqi brothers, Maadh and Hayder Ibrahim, who he met while attending Pima Community College in Tucson, and began to identify himself as a Muslim, according to people who know him.
  • Man with Down's syndrome opens and runs his own restaurant

    03/12/2013 6:20:20 AM PDT · by expat1000 · 18 replies
    This is an amazing story about a man with Down syndrome who has reached the American dream. Since he was a young child, 26-year-old Tim Harris dreamed of having his own restaurant.
  • Weekly Jobless Claims Fall More Than Expected

    02/28/2013 6:08:49 AM PST · by mykroar · 24 replies
    FoxBusiness.com ^ | 2/28/2013 | Reuters
    The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, suggesting some traction in the labor market recovery. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 22,000 to a seasonally adjusted 344,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. The prior week's claims figure was revised to show 4,000 more applications received than previously reported. Economists polled by Reuters had expected first-time applications to fall to 360,000. Claims have seen large swings in recent months because of difficulties smoothing the data for seasonal fluctuations, making it hard to get a clear pulse of the labor market's...
  • The Illusions of Supplemental Security Income, from Someone Who Knows

    02/16/2013 12:53:15 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 62 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 02/16/2013 | Deborah C. Tyler
    I've looked at SSI Disability from both sides now, from in and out, and still somehow it's the scammers, the duped, and the resentful I recall. I have been involved in hundreds of SSI Disability cases. I have worked in the system providing mental status exams, called consultative examinations, in two states. I have done dozens of private psychological evaluations for people trying to get on Disability rolls. I have sent reams of case notes and reports to the Disability bureaucracy on behalf of therapy clients. There have been memorable examinations. One was of a sassy prostitute. She said she...
  • Abortion for Disabled Babies: Who’s to Blame?

    02/14/2013 4:58:23 AM PST · by Kaslin · 13 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | February 14, 2013 | Ashley Herzog
    Jennifer Morbelli’s baby had a name. The baby registry was complete, filled with already-purchased items like the book “I’ll Love You Forever.” The nursery was set up. Jennifer Morbelli’s baby, Madison Leigh, was a wanted child—and only seven weeks shy of birth. Instead, mother and child both died last week from a botched late-term abortion. After learning that Madison had severe birth defects and a short life expectancy, Jennifer and her husband turned to Leroy Carhart, one of the only doctors in the country who performs third-trimester abortions. On February 7th, Jennifer was rushed to the emergency room. (When hospital...
  • 8,830,026: Americans on Disability Hits New Record for 192nd Straight Month

    02/05/2013 6:01:49 PM PST · by navysealdad · 19 replies
    cns news ^ | February 5, 2013
    The number of American workers collecting federal disability payments climbed to yet another record high of 8,830,026 in January, up from 8,827,795 in December, according to newly released data from the Social Security Administration.
  • Social Security Disability Program May Hit Shortfalls by 2016

    01/28/2013 7:35:21 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    Front Page Mag ^ | 01/28/2013 | Daniel Greenfield
    Social Security will eventually hit the wall, but Social Security Disability Insurance may hit the wall even before Obama heads off to a permanent vacation on the many golf courses of Hawaii or rewrites the Living Constitution to become Emperor of Post-America. Over the long term, Social Security and Medicare have promised tens of trillions of dollars more in benefits than the nation can pay for under current policies. But Social SecurityÂ’s disability trust fund is in even worse shape, and current estimates say by 2016 it wonÂ’t have enough money to pay full benefits.The fiscal security of the disability...