This is intentional. Putting people on disability removes them from the unemployment statistics. Obama is bankrupting SS to create a temporary illusion of lower unemployment and an economic recovery.
...and failing miserably at that as well.
Of course it is intentional, but not just by 0bama. Remember when President Bush wanted to give the people a choice to invest either in pension funds or those close to retirement go with Social security and those already on Social Security? The left acted like as if investing in your pension fund was such a horrible thing and ridiculed him for it
Light bulb moment. I know a person who applied for SSI during Bush but was rejected. She hops from one temp job to another so between times she gets unemployment. It's a vicious circle, unemployment runs out, gets a temp job, temp job runs out, gets back on unemployment, rinse and repeat. Out of the blue, last year she was approved for SSI and received tens of thousands of dollars for retroactive payments for her and their now grown kids back to the first application. Now, it's party time for them with new cars, vacations, body piercings and tatoos, and shopping out the wahzoo. Disability, my aunt fanny.