What We Talk About When We Talk About Disability Benefits
[b]By[/b] Athena Bryan
[url=http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2013/11/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-disability-benefits/] http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2013/11/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-disability-benefits/[/url]
In early October, “60 Minutes” aired a segment on the United States’ disability program. In many ways it was a “hatchet job,” as “The Nation” put it. The 14-minute segment, which suggested widespread fraud on the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), relied on the opinions of a handful of judges, lawyers and Social Security administrators who claimed that only around 50 percent of those currently receiving SSDI really need it. The story also cited a dubious study by the staff of conservative Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. With an excessively narrow and statistically unsound sample size of “hundreds of files” and unstated criteria as determinants of “questionable” applications, his staff found the figure of those recipients who are “undeserving” at 45 percent.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Disability Benefits
![[b]By[/b] Athena Bryan
[url=http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2013/11/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-disability-benefits/] http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2013/11/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-disability-benefits/[/url]
In early October, “60 Minutes” aired a segment on the United States’ disability program. In many ways it was a “hatchet job,” as “The Nation” put it. The 14-minute segment, which suggested widespread fraud on the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), relied on the opinions of a handful of judges, lawyers and Social Security administrators who claimed that only around 50 percent of those currently receiving SSDI really need it. The story also cited a dubious study by the staff of conservative Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. With an excessively narrow and statistically unsound sample size of “hundreds of files” and unstated criteria as determinants of “questionable” applications, his staff found the figure of those recipients who are “undeserving” at 45 percent.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Disability Benefits[b]By[/b] Athena Bryan [url=http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2013/11/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-disability-benefits/] http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2013/11/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-disability-benefits/[/url] In early October, “60 Minutes” aired a segment on the United States’ disability program. In many ways it was a “hatchet job,” as “The Nation” put it. The 14-minute segment, which suggested widespread fraud on the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), relied on the opinions of a handful of judges, lawyers and Social Security administrators who claimed that only around 50 percent of those currently receiving SSDI really need it. The story also cited a dubious study by the staff of conservative Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. With an excessively narrow and statistically unsound sample size of “hundreds of files” and unstated criteria as determinants of “questionable” applications, his staff found the figure of those recipients who are “undeserving” at 45 percent. What We Talk About When We Talk About Disability Benefits