There Is Hope For Congress

On Wednesday, The Daily Signal posted an article about new rules the House of Representatives has passed which will impact Social Security. In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of people collecting Social Security disability payments.

See chart below:

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Notice that the dramatic increase took place after welfare reform made it more difficult to collect welfare. Social Security disability has become the new welfare.

Anyway, the Social Security disability fund is expected to run out of money in 2016. The new rule prevents Congress from simply taking money out of the Social Security retirement fund and putting it  in the disability fund.

The article explains:

The new House rule would protect the retirement trust fund from being used as a piggy bank to shore up the disability trust fund. By this action, the House sets the stage for comprehensive Social Security reform that protects disabled Americans and seniors from indiscriminate benefit cuts and recognizes a responsibility for stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

Grab the popcorn, this is going to get interesting.