[freedox]

Not that it really helps anything, but Social Security payments are available only to those who have worked and paid into the system (or their dependents.) Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is for the poor and the non-workers, and those payments come from the general tax fund.

[mamelukesabre]

People that claim to be "unable to work" are often on SS. THey are not retirement age.

At least, they(the ones unable to work) say they are getting SS checks. Maybe they are calling a SSI check a SS check.