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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Compassionate to stock brokers, conservative to the rest
Cuts in disability benefits seen in Social Security plan
Retirement and disability benefits are calculated using the same formula, so if future promised retirement benefits are cut, then disability benefits also would be reduced -- unless the program is somehow separated.
Here's an idea: before dismantling the most successful government program in the nation's history, let's consider how it affects those least able to provide for themselves.
About 16 percent of the 47 million people receiving Social Security benefits are disabled workers and their dependents. The impact of accounts on beneficiaries who aren't retirees has not been publicly discussed by the Bush administration.
