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Mark Duggan

As unemployment benefits claims decline, disability claims rise

Global Politics

More than three million more people are now collecting Social Security payments because of disability then were in 2007. A new report from the Obama administration and others suggests that as people lose unemployment benefits, they’re going after disability benefits.

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