The numbers of disabled combat veterans are a tragedy, but they are really a drop in the bucket compared to the wider population. The numbers of people that ha

The numbers of disabled combat veterans are a tragedy, but they are really a drop in the bucket compared to the wider population. The numbers of people that have some medical condition that would allow them to work a job, if such jobs were available, is where the meat of that increase comes in. Then you have the perverse incentives by which someone on the low end of the pay scale can take a job, and be much worse off than if they stay on the dole, due to various other support programs getting cut off (free health care, fuel assistance, SNAP benefits, etc).