Tag: DI benefits

Social Security Disability Insurance SSDI application form and pen.

A colleague was looking into doing a project on Social Security’s Disability Insurance (DI) program, so it forced me to take a look.  If you listened to conversations on DI, you would get the impression that the problem is out of control and the highest national priority is getting these people off the rolls and…

People walking and one in a wheelchair on a city street

Despite decline in disability rolls, Trustees did not lower their assumptions. The Social Security Trustees recently released their 2018 Report showing little change in the financial outlook from last year – a 75-year deficit of 2.84 percent of payroll and a trust fund depletion date of 2034.  A lot of economic and demographic assumptions go…