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Of our right wing conspiracy and lindsay lohan drive strong again breaks parole claims cruelly and unusual punishment he said his career rand gone better if he didn't say he was gay. every but the complaints but i am a victim i stutter. sometimes when i speak i get stuck on a word i am worried if i say is this better if i fake it and it becomes real and i will humiliate myself. would i have fought to overcome it? maybe not i would have sued fox that they have to accommodate my disability to give me the off-camera job or maybe i would have stopped working to get a disability check.

Deservedly accepting a disability check but we know that is not the case across the board and these numbers are higher than ever. what is going on here? >> america is becoming a increasingly a welfare state. looks more and more like europe. there are vast expansions in unemployment benefits, food stamps, cash welfare. as you see on the screen an explosion in disability. during the obama years we've gone from eight million people, just about eight million people claiming social security disability payments all the way up to nearly 11 million. that is a huge explosion in disability payments. now...

Families. when a veteran can't get his disability check, you're talking about an additional financial stress and the stress of waiting. part of my job is helping people wait. especially when you're talking about over 200 days having to wait for a check and someone to tell you what you already know, that you're disabled. that's a tough pill to swallow. >> especially having served your country. >> absolutely. >> either overseas or domestically. jason from iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, thank you for your time. and thank you to film director ellen kent. the documentary crisis hot line,...

Checks to 5.1 million veterans won't be issued, 360,000 surviving spouses and children of wartime vets may step getting v.a. money. this is certainly a larger teal. as we saw earlier in the month, the issue of the gratuity death benefits halted and not going out to military members that we've lost, this is a really big deal for so many american families coming up in the next couple of weeks. >> it's a huge deal. that's why you see 33 veterans organizations out there. there's issues now in the fact guard and reservists can't go to battle and get paid. come 1 november if you lost both your legs ...

Are there worrying about whether the benefits they were promised will be there when they get home. joining me now, john saltz, chairman of votevets.org. the group behind the ad we just showed a moment ago. goldie taylor is an msnbc contributor and veteran herself. john, i want to start with you. obviously there was the up roar over the denial of the death benefits. that got resolved. which was, you know, obviously a good thing. but it's obviously sparked some activity among your folks. what are you hearing from veterans? >> well, i don't actually know where to start. if you're a veteran right ...