[Graybeard58]

I have to wonder if those currently transitioning from unemployment (which you have to be able to work to collect?) to disability are waiting anywhere near that long?

You have to have worked to collect Social Security Disability too. Way too many people on it who aren't disabled and those who are truly disabled have a hard time getting it.

Unemployment is a whole other subject but that gravy train is coming to an end rapidly. December, for hundreds of thousands.

[Smokin' Joe]

Unemployment is a whole other subject but that gravy train is coming to an end rapidly. December, for hundreds of thousands.

Some are speculating that the sudden rise in SSDI claims and the looming end of unemployment benefits are related.

I always thought the 99 weeks was just to keep the population complacent until after the elections anyway, and a very expensive way to kick the can down the road. Had Obama not been reelected, the jump in people headed toward NINJA (No Income No Job no Assets) would have fallen on a Republican POTUS' watch.

[sheana]

You have to have worked to collect Social Security Disability too

Not true, look up the SSI-SSP program.