Employers are cutting back or eliminating health benefits, forcing millions more people into the ranks of the uninsured.
By 2016, the payroll taxes that finance the system would no longer cover benefits, forcing Social Security to begin redeeming the government bonds it holds.
Medicaid costs would be cut by forcing hospitals to absorb rising costs, freezing state reimbursements to pharmacists and changing the way the state administers prescription drug benefits, forcing doctors to prescribe less expensive drugs.
By 2025, even the combination of payroll tax revenue and interest payments on the bonds will no longer cover benefits, forcing the system to redeem the bonds it holds.
The length and depth of the downturn led many states to deplete the trust funds they use to pay such benefits, forcing them to borrow billions of dollars from the federal government and prompting some states to raise taxes on businesses to continue paying benefits.
I spent the next 19 months fighting to be awarded benefits, forced to deal with ever-growing debt as I waited for my tribunal, at which they agreed in under 10 minutes that I was entitled to this essential financial support.
"Nor has it promised not to use the technology for its benefit, forcing Dyson to take legal action".
The lack of old industry -- iron, coal and steel -- was a kind of hidden benefit, forcing Bavaria to concentrate on what was modern, becoming the Silicon Valley of Europe, or at least one of the new high-tech centers.
"It is unacceptable for our country to turn a blind eye while U.S. tax dollars benefit forces that abuse their power, commit shocking acts of violence and fuel the Colombian conflict," said William F. Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA.
For data on nonrecipients of benefits, labor force participation, and other labor statistics, we use the quarterly labor force survey Inquerito ao Emprego, from Instituto Nacional de Estatistica.
