“That is a good idea, and will solve perhaps 5% of the $25 trillion financial hole.”
Negative, negative, negative.
Just take the disability rules back to what they were in 1991 and see what happens. The dagger in the heart of SS was when ‘the bent one’ wanted to claim he had, ‘ended welfare as we know it.’ In a sense he did. He pushed billions of dollars of it into the Social Security payout. It has been eating up funds ever since. And the damage escalates year by year.
If you take out all the fraud in the SSI program, Social Security still crashes, just a decade or so later that it currently is planned to.