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May 1981

Disability payments stabilizing after era of accelerating growth

Jonathan Sunshine

Programs' share of GNP was constant at 2.2 percent in 1975-77, with claims dropping from peak rates of the mid-1970s; since 1950, payments under both private and Government plans had mushroomed

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