Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules

Red state workers at risk for losing disability benefits as Trump admin rewrites the rules

It’s never been easy to qualify for Social Security disability benefits. Christopher Tincher knows this firsthand.Tincher began his working life in a coal mine in Aflex, Kentucky, as a teenager in the 1980s. As mines across the region shuttered, he turned to scraping grills at a Hardee’s, then cleaning office buildings at night, then stocking shelves and changing tires at a Walmart in Arkansas. Later, he was hired by a nearby town’s wastewater d…

Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules

Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of President Trump’s most loyal supporters.