WASHINGTON — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.
Flood of claims brings Social Security disability on verge of insolvency
Sunday, August 21, 2011 | 5:12 p.m. CDT;
updated 6:44 p.m. CDT, Sunday, August 21, 2011
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