The federal safety net for Americans with disabilities could be out of reach for hundreds of thousands of older people under a plan favored by the Trump administration’s Budget Director Russell Vought. The Social Security Administration evaluates disability claims by considering age, work experience, and education to determine whether an applicant is capable of working. Older applicants typically have a better chance of qualifying for disability benefits, but a proposed plan — part of a planned overhaul of the agency that manages retirement and disability benefits for tens of millions of Americans — would eliminate age as a factor altogether as administration officials encourage older people to keep working, according to The Washington Post. The changes, reportedly pushed by White House budget director Vought, could mean 750,000 fewer Social Security recipients and $82 billion in reduced payouts over 10 years, with 80,000 widows and children among those affected, the Urban Institute recently found.

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