Much of the ongoing program cheating comes from those who continue to collect disability payments but are stealthily employed on the side.

FORBES: Fraud And Disability Equal A Multibillion Dollar Black Hole For Taxpayers

That is the only way we can explain how almost as many people collect disability (10.8 million) as there are working in the entirety of manufacturing (12 million).

FORBES: Is Disability the New Unemployment Insurance?

After the oil-price shocks of the 1970s, several European governments tried to cut the unemployment rolls by letting older workers collect early pensions or draw sickness and disability benefits for which they did not strictly qualify.

ECONOMIST: The crunch may entrench unemployment