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ing a final recourse to the tedenu courts. At every level, however, a case must be tested against the law, and it may well be that there are many individuals who have been forced to give up their employment on accou.rt of disability who cannot understand why they are not entitled to disability benefits under social security.
The law doesn’t say, however,, that the benefits will be paid if one no longer can follow hs usual occupation because of disability. If one retains the capacity t^ do some other kind of work, even at much specialists believe one could be retained to earn a living at something never tried before, the claim for benefits must be rejected under present law. In any case, benefits do not become payable until age 50.
Our subcommittee may not concern itself wttih proposals to make the law less strict. It must follow its instructions to see that the law as now written, is being carried out as effectively and economically as possible. The testimony before our committee indicates, however, that the coming session of Congress will be likely to give serious consideration to a change in the present requirements that a disabled person be 50 years of age or older, before he may receive payments. This limitation was written in to insure the solvency of the disability insurance fund, from which the payments come, but the information furnished the subcommittee is to the effect that this age requirement could be reduced substantially, or perhaps even eliminated, at existing social security ta* progressions.
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