Social Security was not supposed to be a disability program - too many people, I know several, are lying about and lying about needing it. I told the persons about it also and they said it was suggested to them. Sorry, being preggers is not being disabled.

SSDI is for those who have worked the required number of quarters and are now disabled. It is part of Social Security.

SSI is for those who were disabled as children or who did not work the required number of quarters as adults before becoming disabled. While run by Social Security, it is not funded as part of the regular Social Security program.

With baby boomers now in their 50´s and 60´s, the time when new disabilities are most likely to arise, it isn´t surprising that there are more people on SSDI.

And with more and more disabled children (autism is now 1 in 88 versus 1 in 10,000 25 years ago), there will be larger and larger numbers on SSI as well.

The original name of SS was the Widows and Infants fund. Beyond that is noting more than a ponzi scheme to buy votes.
My arsehole BIL voted O(And I had to spend the day at his house Tuesday) because he "contributed to SS since he started working in 1963!!"
You moron, you were in banking and you think that %.1 on your SS contributions paid enough to carry you thru 2 darn years??

Who was so blind as to not see this coming when the elites came up with their phony "designer" disability mental diseases- PTSD, ADD and many, many other dumb made-up alphabet diseases that were nothing but wide open doors for liable lawyers to make a killing off of. Just look at the fantastic lists of remote possibility side effects drug companies have to post when they advertise- and why are they advertising drugs only your Doctor can prescribe is beyond me! We have actually become a dysfunctional society and we are starting to topple from our own shoddy constructions.

Don´t forget - ADD and ADHD is considered a disability and those kids receive SSI (or they used to) - one reason parents push for their kids to be identified in school.

SS should be for those who pay in = period, or the survivor of someone that paid in. It´s just a slush fund now.

I was watching an old ABC clip about the epidemic of AIDS in the black community so I have to believe a lot of these claimants from the AIDS division of our promiscous fellow citizens.

How can you be aware of an AIDS epidemic and still have rcekless sex. It must be the internal animal that takes over.

Gwen Ifill was in on it and mystified why the government hasn´t done more.Like what?It´s a personal behavior issue.The big reason for it is bisexual men you et it from a gay then transmit it to a woman.

As #2 pointed out, SSI is not part of SS and is not funded by SS. it. is administered by SS. Too many people, low information people, I guess, thank they are the same. In reality, SS is fully funded until about 2036. It then starts running a deficit if nothing is done between now and then.

I get so incensed about this because of the way politicians looted the money in the SS Trust Fund, replaced it with US Bonds "backed by the full faith and honor of the US Gov" and then used the cash to buy votes. You see, they can´t use Bonds to buy votes but they can use the cash from the SS Trust Fund - so they convert it. Politicians find a way. Look closely at Harry Reid´s land deals that made him rich if you need a
lesson in screwing the taxpayer. They are a cunning breed. And they hire other cunning people called Staff, paid for by us, to assist.

When Madoff does it, its a Ponzi scheme and he goes to jail. When the gooberment does it "its all fair". Go figure!!

Hey, #7...your cash is nothing more than a promise "backed by the full faith and honor of the US Gov". Your dollar has NO intrinsic value. A Federal Reserve Note of 20 years ago is worth the same "dollar" as one printed yesterday.

The sad part is if you´re on disability you´re allowed to earn $20,000 yearly .....sad real sad.... In the old days you had to be in a wheel chair before you were considered disabled...

So which ´disability´ fund is everyone going to when they run out of unemployment compensation after the 99 weeks? I thought it was part of the Social Security program.

Forgot to remind you about one of Dingy Hairy´s money grabbing schemes. Someone gifted him some land-locked land, many acres, but not worth much it seems. Somehow he got a bridge and roads built into this land-locked property and was then able to sell it for million$. Back in the 80´s I think.

So tired of Social Security being the first on the hit list.

When tossing numbers around, notice they don´t say how many SS checks leave this country ? How many immigrants receive checks ? How about those tax credits for children of immigrants that don´t even live in this country ?