Almost 11 million Americans rely on Social Security Disability Insurance. Oh, but what about waste, fraud, and abuse? I bet there’s a ton of that in the SSDI program. Ummm, no. According to the Trump administration’s own analysis (dug out by the Washington Post’s tireless fact checker Glenn Kessler), “improper disability payment, which can result from mistakes or incorrect information” (NOTE: which are innocent mistakes, not fraud or abuse), represented a teeny, tiny percentage of disability payments. How tiny? Tinier than Donald Trump’s hands. Overpayments constituted 0.99 percent of
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