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Who Decides Disability?

Frontline · Season 1 · Episode 21
Frontline investigates the Reagan administration's effort to remove tens of thousands of people from the Social Security disability rolls. Disabled people face personal hardship and bureaucratic indifference as they take their cases to the courts and to Congress.

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Season
1
Episode
21
Air Date
20/Jun/1983
Air Time
22:00
Runtime

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Frontline investigates the Reagan administration's effort to remove tens of thousands of people from the Social Security disability rolls. Disabled people face personal hardship and bureaucratic indifference as they take their cases to the courts and to Congress.

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