WH Budget Chief: " I Hope Fewer People Get Social Security Disability Insurance"

[Honeycombe8]

97. Exactly. It's part of the SS funding, and if you are young, ....

you had to have worked in a SS job for some time, but not very long. Those disability payments come out of the SS Fund, and may continue for many decades, despite the worker not having paid much into the system.

"Before age 24--You may qualify if you have 6 credits earned in the 3-year period ending when your disability starts.

Age 24 to 31--You may qualify if you have credit for working half the time between age 21 and the time you become disabled. For example, if you become disabled at age 27, you would need credit for 3 years of work (12 credits) out of the past 6 years (between ages 21 and 27).

31 through 42---20 credits needed."

https://www.ssa.gov/planners/credits.html


This was added later, after SS was started in the 1930s. The SS system was originally not designed for disability. This plays a big part in SS's financial difficulties that are projected, is my understanding.

These are just facts. I'm not arguing against SSDI by any means. I'm just pointing out WHY the politicians on the right are targeting it. They also think, IMO, that because SOME people get it fraudulently, the program should be reduced for ALL. But they don't think that about any programs that the wealthy people benefit from, even though there is fraud in those programs, too. There is fraud in every program. There are corrupt people in everything.