I point out also that there has been historically--and I know the Senator from New York is aware of this--a distinction between the SSI program and the disability insurance program. The reasoning or rationale behind it, as I understand it, is that those who are on SSI may not have contributed enough into the Social Security trust fund as such, or at all.
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