{"id":48226,"date":"2014-05-20T18:50:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T22:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48226"},"modified":"2014-05-20T18:53:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T22:53:13","slug":"more-on-social-security-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48226","title":{"rendered":"More on Social Security Disability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32105\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35497\">here<\/a>) about Social Security Disability.\u00a0 Well, ti&#8217;s time for an update.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, the Social Security Disability rolls set another record last month.\u00a0 In April 2014, according to the Social Security Administration <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/terence-p-jeffrey\/10996447-disability-beneficiaries-hit-new-record\">nearly 11 million Americans (10,996,447) were receiving Social Security Disability benefits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This total was an increase of over 15,000 from the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 9 million of those receiving benefits &#8211; 8,942,232, to be precise &#8211; were disabled workers. The other 2+ million beneficiaries were spouses and children.<\/p>\n<p>The fraction of America receiving Social Security disability continues to rise also.\u00a0 In 1967, 2 million were receiving Social Security disability benefits &#8211; out of a population of roughly 198.7 million.\u00a0 That was about 1.01% of the US population.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Census Bureaus says the US population is roughly 318 million. Doing the math, that means that <em>nearly 3.5% of the US population (3.46%) is currently drawing Social Security disability benefits<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people drawing Social Security disability benefits today is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">greater than the estimated population of Tunisia<\/span>.\u00a0 The number is approaching the population of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions regarding why the SSA is now saying that the Social Security Disability Fund <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/pressoffice\/pr\/trustee12-pr.html\">will go broke in about 2 years<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The CNS article has an excellent graph showing the number of Social Security Disability recipients by year, but it&#8217;s scaled rather small and doesn&#8217;t display that well in their article.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DISABILITY-BENEFICIARIES-PHOTO_0.jpg\">Click here to see that graph<\/a> as a separate image.<\/p>\n<p>We are so screwed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before (here and here) about Social Security Disability.\u00a0 Well, ti&#8217;s time for an update. &hellip; <a title=\"More on Social Security Disability\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48226\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on Social Security Disability<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}