Social Security Disability Insurance

COMMENTARY

How Trump’s proposed benefits changes will create hardship for rural people with disabilities

BY: and - February 13, 2020

Changes to the Social Security Disability Insurance program proposed in January by the Trump administration could make it harder for over 8 million Americans with disabilities to maintain federal benefits. That’s particularly true for those in rural communities, where we have worked and studied for the past 35 years. Changes to disability benefits Currently, nearly […]