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The Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program is functionally and financially broken. With average wait times approaching 600 days, too many individuals die while awaiting their benefits. As the system denies benefits for some individuals with rather apparent disabilities, almost half of all benefit awards stem from non-medical factors, such as age, education, and work experience. Furthermore, despite the program’s intent to provide benefits only while workers are disabled, the SSDI program fails to conduct sufficient continuing disability reviews (CDRs).
America’s Social Security program is running out of time and money. Policymakers cannot agree on how to fix it, and generations of Americans have been duped into believing it is a good deal.