Key Social Security Disability Numbers
Some facts about Social Security's disability program:

--Disabled beneficiaries: 6.2 million.

--Average monthly benefit: $866.

--Dependents of disabled beneficiaries: 1.7 million.

--Almost three in 10 of today's 20-year-olds will become disabled before age 67.

--About 72 percent of the private sector work force has no long-term disability insurance.
- posted by Anonymous @ Monday, January 17, 2005