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Disability is the new retirement

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The share of the adult population, 16 and over, participating in the labor force is at its lowest level since 1978, at 62.8% and 62.9% in June and July, respectively. In a comprehensive study of trends in the workforce released in December, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said it expects a further decline in labor-force participation, to 61.6%, by 2022.

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Do some of these people [dropping out of the labor force] have independent means? If so, their number is small. Census Bureau data show that in 2012, just 232,000 prime-age men, or 0.4% of the total cohort, had income from stocks, bonds, and real estate of $50,000 or more, while 76,000 enjoyed an investment income of $100,000 or more. Both figures should be enough to get by without income from a job. But we don’t know how many of these men supplemented that income with work.

And evidence exists that some of these men may be doing any of a combination of the following: living off loans and stipends that support them through college and professional school; using credit-card debt to cover living expenses; relying on spouses for support; working sporadically in the above-ground economy, or living off crime.


WHEN IT COMES TO the millions of people receiving Social Security disability income, however, it is fairly certain that virtually all of them are outside of the labor force.

The SSDI program “creates a very strong incentive against meaningfully participating in the formal labor market,” says Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor David Autor, author of the November 2011 study, “The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States.”

The reason is simple: If you take a job, you run the risk of being terminated from the program and losing the benefits.

It always comes back to incentives.


Source: http://www.wcvarones.com/2014/08/disability-is-new-retirement.html


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