Section 3, Subsection q, page 7 of the new 114th Congressional rules (H. Res. 5) includes a provision to block shift funding of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).

Disability Insurance (DI or SSDI) is the largest income replacement group program run by the United States federal government. In November 2014, the Disability Insurance program paid benefits to almost 8.4 million disabled beneficiaries.

According to a Summary of the 2014 Annual Reports, “DI Trust Fund reserves expressed as a percent of annual cost (the trust fund ratio) declined to 62 percent at the beginning of 2014.” The Trustees projected in the annual report that the trust fund would deplete in late 2016. The trustees continue that the “DI costs have exceeded non-interest income since 2005 and the trust fund ratio has declined in every year since peaking in 2003.”

In 2006, David Autor and Mark Duggan wrote on behalf of the National Bureau of Economic Research, that the growth of SSDI usage had been the loosening of the SSDI screening process that took place in 1984, following the signing into law of the Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act of 1984 (P.L. 98-460).