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by shorttime 3358 days ago
Isn't this essentially social security disability?
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No. Even though I said let's pretend disability doesn't exist, this is from the SS website:

> Social Security pays benefits to people who can’t work because they have a medical condition that’s expected to last at least one year or result in death.[0]

The program I was talking about would be more something like retirement+disability, proved by the government with a set retire date (say, 65) and any withdrawals before hand would be at a lesser rate (if proven unfit to work, but not only of a medical condition).

Specifically in the U.S.

[0]:https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10029.pdf