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The cuts to a major disability program in Trump’s budget

CBS News: The cuts to a major disability program in Trump’s budget (6/1/2017) The Trump administration’s 2018 budget proposes to cut $72 billion from Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) over the next ten years. SSDI provides benefits to American workers with a life-altering illness or disability. SSI provides basic support to low income seniors, low income children, and adults with disabilities. Justice in Aging’s Kate Lang said, “I feel like there’s a lot of language being used that reflects attitudes that somehow people with disabilities are faking it or are slackers or just don’t have the right attitude. Unfortunately there is a certain lack of sympathy or understanding of what life is like for people with disabilities, it seems.”

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