Google searches for #SSDI reached their highest point ever recorded this April. #DisabilityandCOVID19

1/ Reasonable to assume that the pandemic, like the Great Recession, will lead to increased applications as many with limitations and poor labor market prospects will seek protection.

2/ May have implications for the fiscal sustainability of the Disability Trust Fund, which was trending positively pre-pandemic.
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The Good News on Social Security: We Have More Time to Improve Disability Insurance

This week's Social Security Trustees' report warned that the program is on a path toward insolvency, with the theoretically combined trust fund set to deplete its reserves in just 16 years. However,...

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