As a result, disabled recipients often shy away from taking a job.
Bonnie's approach to the disabled recipients changed over time.
However, the Reagan Administration terminated the Social Security benefits of hundreds of thousands of disabled recipients.
Giuliani's new ambition--to make all welfare recipients work--seems fraught: There are too many sick and otherwise disabled recipients who will resist.
But Ms. McCaughey would rapidly pick up the pace, requiring that nearly all poor and some disabled recipients be enrolled by the summer of 1996.
Elderly and disabled recipients of Social Security will lose part of the raise to increases in their Medicare premiums, which are deducted from their benefits.
In addition, the elderly, disabled and certain Social Security recipients may receive assistance by calling the Westchester Office for the Aging at 665-5900.
In particular he cited cuts affecting hospitals and the elderly or disabled recipients of home care.
Permanently disabled recipients would be eligible for up to $50,000 a year in lost wages.
Partly disabled recipients would collect also that benefit, up to a maximum of $262,000.