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[quote=Anonymous]If by "on disability" you mean SSDI, you should also know that SSDI is an insurance program that insures people who work and pay into the trust through their working dollars. If you worked long enough and paid into it long enough, you get some benefits from it if you become disabled, much like a regular insurance policy. Less than 2% of the population currently receives payments from this system they paid into.

Even fewer people, about 3.7 million, receive SSI, which is a benefit that did not require a prior work history, and covers disabled people living in poverty, primarily people who were disabled in youth and never able to work and who live in extreme poverty. It also covers elderly in extreme poverty. If you earn $2000 a month from any source, you don't qualify. If you think people are intentionally living in extreme poverty to qualify for this limited benefit, you need to go do some volunteer community service work and meet these folks.

The other public disability benefit is for veterans. Thank them for their sacrifice.

Some people "on disability" are being paid by private insurance companies under policies they or their employer purchased privately.

In all, it's actually not "so many." It is a very small percentage of the population, but their needs are great.
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