SSA Disability Collapsing

From Yahoo News:
"Social Security disability on verge of insolvency"

Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency. Applications are up nearly 50 percent over a decade ago as people with disabilities lose their jobs and can't find new ones in an economy that has shed nearly 7 million jobs. The stampede for benefits is adding to a growing backlog of applicants — many wait two years or more before their cases are resolved — and worsening the financial problems of a program that's been running in the red for years. New congressional estimates say the trust fund that supports Social Security disability will run out of money by 2017, leaving the program unable to pay full benefits, unless Congress acts. About two decades later, Social Security's much larger retirement fund is projected to run dry, too, leaving it unable to pay full benefits as well.

^ Congress needs to act quickly to fix this so Social Security Disability doesn't run out. The system is broken and running on its last legs. I think we need to have Social Security Disability for those that actually have a REAL disability. Too many people are applying and receiving Disability that do not have one - they are just too lazy to get a job. Social Security should re-evaluate how they give out benefits and check on those that already get them. If a person was getting paid $150,000 a year at a regular job and then applies and gets Social Security Disability at $2,000 a month then it is pretty clear that that person deserves the Disability benefits because no one in their right mind would accept that much in reduction if they could help it. Also, being overweight is not a disability - or at least shouldn't be considered one by the government. People are abusing the system because the system is not being checked regularly. Those that truly are disabled and deserve the benefits are being pushed aside by those that are just too lazy. We need to weed out those that are abusing the system and make sure that the people that are really disabled get all the benefits they are entitled to. It is hard enough as it is to live with a disability and they shouldn't have to "fight" the government because they (the SSA) are throwing away the money to anyone who complains of a headache. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/social-security-disability-verge-insolvency-090119318.html