That provision would knock children off disability rolls.
Congressional projections assumed that about 200,000 children would be knocked off the disability rolls.
The other 15,000 children have not been on the disability rolls, but unsuccessfully applied for benefits in the last year.
The number of children on the disability rolls has tripled since 1989, and costs have quadrupled, to more than $5 billion a year.
When people stop looking and drop out, including people who go on the disability rolls, they no longer count as unemployed.
No one disputes that the disability rolls are swelling.
It will knock many children off disability rolls and limit families to five years of Federal cash assistance.
This trend is partly related to the rising disability rolls.
"Just get her off the disability rolls and back to work."
Currently 4.4 million people are on these disability rolls.
