"Republican Representative Sam Johnson, of Texas, who authored the rule change, said it was meant to protect Social Security retirement benefits from being "raided" by the "fraud-plagued disability program" and to encourage reforms"
I'm in favor of the above. I'm not saying we shouldn't have a program to assist the disabled but the actual social security program is funded by payroll deductions and earmarked for retired workers who contributed to it.
And for the record I personally am acquainted with 3 people getting disability payments. 2 of them are scamming the system and both work for cash on the side, one full time.
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