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<![CDATA[The View From Rush Limbaugh’s Recession, Ctd]]>A reader writes:

As it happens, I'm actually an expert on "drunks on disability" - a lawyer who's concentrated on Social Security disability claims for the past 14 years.

(a) You can't get Social Security or SSI for being addicted to drugs or alcohol. Not since a change in the law in 1996. Yes, there are some disabled people who are addicts; but you find addicts in every slice of life. No reason the disabled should be exempt.

(b) As a practical matter, use of alcohol or drugs makes it MUCH harder to get on disability.

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