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Show ity. Further duplication, therefore, there-fore, will tend to weaken and destroy the state compensation program. and over and an offset provision provis-ion prevented duplication with state workmen's compensation benefits. Subsequent amendments to the Social Security Act in 1958 and 1960, however, removed the age restrictions and permitted per-mitted disabled workers to receive re-ceive both. Federal and state disability benefits. Foundation analysts note that additional amendments to further broaden broad-en and liberalize Federal Social So-cial Security disability benefits bene-fits and thereby increase the amount of overlapping between the Federal and state programs, pro-grams, were introduced in Congress during 1961 and 1962. Critics of the present trend toward expansion of Federal Social Security disability benefits bene-fits observe that it is not practical prac-tical to have both a Federal and state sysem which provide benefits for the same disabil- More profitable to be disabled, reports reveal For many disabled workers in Utah, it is more profitable to draw disability benefits than it is to work. This was revealed reveal-ed in a recent analysis of Federal-state duplication in disability disa-bility benefits just completed by Utah Foundation, the private pri-vate governmental research organization. or-ganization. The Foundation study points out that a worker with a wife and two children earning $400 a month receives only $351 in take-home pay after Federal and state taxes. If this worker were totally and permanently disabled, the family could receive re-ceive tax-free income in Utah of $459 a month under present state and Federal disability benefit laws. These high disability benefits bene-fits are the result of overlapping overlap-ping and duplication between Federal Social Security - and the state workmen's compensation compensa-tion program, according to the report. When the Social Security Secur-ity Act was amended in 1956 to estab lish Federal disability benefits, the program was confined con-fined to person 50 years of age |