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Social Security may be failing well over a million people with disabilities – and COVID-19 is making the problem worse

  • Written by Zachary Morris, Assistant Professor of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Social Security may be failing well over a million people with disabilities – and COVID-19 is making the problem worseSocial Security has two programs aimed at helping those with disabilities. Kameleon007/iStock via Getty Images

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More than half of U.S. adults over the age of 50 with work-limiting disabilities – likely over 1.3 million people – do not receive the Social...

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