This article by Richard Wolf addresses the significant financial and personal impacts claimants suffer while waiting for disability benefits.  The lengthy waits can lead to bankruptcies, foreclosures, divorce, and even suicide.  Advocates for Disability organizations are demanding an agency overhaul of the system that seems to focus on fraud and lean toward denying cases.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-07-29-disabilityinside_N.htm

Tags: disability, disability claims, Social Security disability