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A major reversal from the Social Security Administration to tell you about
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and one that could spare hundreds of thousands of older Americans from losing disability benefits
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The agency is abandoning plans to rewrite how disability claims are judged
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after a wave of backlash that reached all the way to the Trump White House
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That's according to new reporting from the Washington Post. At the center of it, an effort to remove age as a factor in deciding whether someone can still work
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Advocates warned it would hit people over 50 the hardest, the very group the program was designed to protect
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That proposal was just days away from being published, but The Post reports that SSA Commissioner Frank Bonsignano has pulled the plug
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telling disability advocates the rule is not moving forward. Politically, too, this was becoming a problem
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Cutting disability roles would have undercut President Trump's repeated promise not to touch Social Security
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For now, the agency is not commenting, but advocates are calling this a relief for older Americans
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who depend on these benefits just to stay afloat
