Posted on 02/19/2012 4:34:53 PM PST by tobyhill
Being unemployed for too long reportedly is driving people mad and costing taxpayers billions of dollars in mental illness and other disability claims.
The New York Post reported Sunday that as unemployment checks run out, many jobless are trying to gain government benefits by declaring themselves unhealthy.
More than 10.5 million people -- about 5.3 percent of the population aged 25 and 64 -- received disability checks in January from the federal government, the Post wrote, a 18 percent jump from before the recession.
Among those claiming disability, 43 percent are asking for benefits because of mental illness, the Post wrote. A growing number of those people are older, former white-collar workers.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Unemployment eventually comes to an end.
Disability is forever.”””
The current UNDER-FUNDING of the Social Security Fund by over $100 Billion annually will be further impacted by this shift in funds to the unemployed, which is shifting over to disability.
All of this manipulation will lead to further chaos from our supreme Marxist in the Oval office.
He MUST be removed, along with all his Czars, Justice minions & ACORN activists.
Hmmm.....
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