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July 24, 2005

CCD Fact Sheets on Social Security and Disability

Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities

SOCIAL SECURITY FACTS

Social Security provides benefits to 47 million people. They include over 7 million people with disabilities, their spouses and children. When most people talk about Social Security changes, they only discuss retirement benefits. This is a very serious concern for people with disabilities and their families because changes in the program will have a huge impact on everyone who gets benefits - not just people who retire.

The CCD Social Security Task Force created a set of seven Fact Sheets in March 2005 to educate people about the potential devastating effect of major program changes. The Fact Sheets discuss the following topics:

• What Benefits Do People with Disabilities and Their Families Get from Social Security?
• How Does Social Security Help People with Disabilities &
  their Families?
• How Does Social Security Protect Young Workers and Their
  Families?
• How is Social Security Funded?
• How Will Individual Private Accounts Affect Social
  Security?
• How Are the Social Security & SSI Disability Programs
  Different?
• Checklist: Effect of Proposed Changes on People with
  Disabilities & Their Families

CCD encourages its member organizations and others to share the Fact Sheets with their own members, elected officials and the press. Although the Fact Sheets were created as a set, people may use them separately to discuss an area of special concern. Electronic copies of the Fact Sheets are available to download from the CCD web site, at http://www.c-c-d.org/FactSheets/index.htm

Posted by Karen Thomas at July 24, 2005 08:30 PM

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