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Social Security Administration: Disability Insurance
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Bipolar disorder is recognized as a Disability by Social Security. However, if a person with Bipolar disorder wants to seek Social Security Disability benefits, it is very important that the individual receive regular treatment. This treatment should include visits to a mental health clinic for counseling and medication. Information regarding an individual’s work history should ... be gathered. Failed work attempts can be strong evidence of a person’s mental disease, especially when the work attempt ended due to impulsive behavior or a lack of reliability.
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According to the historical origins of the SSA, the administration should provide a supplemental retirement income, which it does. The problem right now is that the money employees must pay into the system throughout their lives is not earmarked for them. That means that the Baby Boomers, which far outnumber their children, could drain the system. Another issue is that the Social Security Administration now provides benefits to people who are disabled as well as providing Medicare, or insurance, coverage to the elderly.
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