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More Unemployed Turn to Social Security Disability

Jobless apparently using fund as a last resort

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 28, 2011 2:15 PM CST

(Newser) – The ranks of Americans collecting Social Security Disability Insurance payments have swelled dramatically in recent years, and that may be because more people are turning to the program when they can’t find work, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some 10.6 million Americans are...   Read full story »

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