Alarmist Stories Misportray Social Security Disability Insurance

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Alarmist Stories Misportray Social Security Disability Insurance
August 23, 2011 at 11:20 am

Social Security’s disability-insurance program is forecast to run short of money in 2018, more than six years from now, and policymakers can plug the hole for several decades by reallocating some taxes from the related old-age program as they have done in the past. But that’s not the impression you’d get from some alarmist reports. “Social Security disability on verge of insolvency” blares a Fox News story, a theme echoed by other outlets (see here and here).

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