"In the past four decades, the number of workers with disabilities who receive benefits from the [Social Security Disability Insurance ('DI')] program has increased nearly sixfold, rising from 1.5 million in 1970 to 8.8 million in January 2013.... Since 2009, the program has paid out more each year in benefits than it received in dedicated revenues..... In 2023, CBO projects, the program's spending will be 0.82 percent of GDP, and dedicated tax revenues will be 0.66 percent of GDP. CBO projects that the DI trust fund will be exhausted in 2016, nearly 20 years before the projected exhaustion of [the] trust fund for the Social Security retirement program."

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