Michael Barone on Disability Nation

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2012/12/michael-barone-on-disability-nation

Michael Barone has a column about the growth in the number of Americans receiving federal disability benefits:

In 1960, some 455,000 workers were receiving disability payments. In 2011, the number was 8,600,000. In 1960, the percentage of the economically active 18-to-64-year-old population receiving disability benefits was 0.65 percent. In 2010, it was 5.6 percent....many people are gaming or defrauding the system. This includes not only disability recipients but health care professionals, lawyers and others who run ads promising to get you disability benefits.

by Editor  |  Dec 3, 2012 at 8:03 am Related Topics:  Government Spending receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list