In addition, the state now offers cash payments to about 8,700 other families through kinship care and disability programs.

The current Congress can begin to fix the disability program by providing the needed funds in the coming budget for 2008.

Just how drastically Congress wanted to change the disability program is in dispute.

It made sense to consolidate the disability program within the authority, he said.

More than 700,000 of the children in the disability program are not threatened by the new legislation.

The disability program, in turn, is an obstacle to working again.

Two major problems would result from maintaining the existing disability program in the face of private accounts.

And the university's largely new administration has provided strong financial support for learning disability programs.

Minimum benefit funding and the disability program would also continue under the trust fund as now.

Social Security 's old-age and disability programs both favor married people.