Tag: disability
Abstract Disabled veterans are less likely to work today than in the past; between 1995 and 2014, the percent of veterans who were working while receiving disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) dropped from 62 percent to 49 percent. This drop has led the VA – which liberalized the list of health conditions…
Acting soon allows baby boomers to share the burden and reduces the size of the changes. The 2015 report from the Social Security Trustees shows a slight improvement in the system’s finances from last year. The deficit over the next 75 years declined from 2.88 percent of taxable payrolls in 2014 to 2.68 percent in…
