Crazy or Lazy? Inside the Disability World. / Heather Mac Donald.
by Mac Donald, Heather; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 21Business. Publisher: Mac Donald/Heather, 2001ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Capacity and disability | Insurance -- Disability | Psychiatric disability evaluation | Substance abuse | Supplemental security income programDDC classification: 050 Summary: "As a new decade gets underway [2001], the public may well discover that the great welfare reform debate of 1995 addressed only half the problem. The Rivera family of Boston illustrates why. Eulalia Rivera came from Puerto Rico in 1968 and proceeded to raise a welfare dynasty. Her sixteen surviving children (the seventeenth was shot) and her eighty-nine progeny collect $750,000 to $1 million a year in government benefits. Their main form of support, however, is not AFDC, the program for single mothers and children that was targeted for reform: It is federal disability payments." (WOMEN'S QUARTERLY) This article examines the federal disability system.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Crazy or Lazy? Inside the Disability World, Winter 2001; pp. 26-29.
"As a new decade gets underway [2001], the public may well discover that the great welfare reform debate of 1995 addressed only half the problem. The Rivera family of Boston illustrates why. Eulalia Rivera came from Puerto Rico in 1968 and proceeded to raise a welfare dynasty. Her sixteen surviving children (the seventeenth was shot) and her eighty-nine progeny collect $750,000 to $1 million a year in government benefits. Their main form of support, however, is not AFDC, the program for single mothers and children that was targeted for reform: It is federal disability payments." (WOMEN'S QUARTERLY) This article examines the federal disability system.
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