Social Security Disability Insurance on Brink of Insolvency
Published August 21, 2011
| Associated Press
AP
New regulations from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission offer fresh guidelines on the issue of how to define "disability" under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
WASHINGTON -- Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.
Applications are up nearly 50 percent over a decade ago as people with disabilities lose their jobs and can't find new ones in an economy that has shed nearly 7 million jobs.
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