Claim: In Rhode Island, "Nearly 9 percent of covered employees go out on short term disability every year, with an average outage from work of almost 12 weeks each."
Fact-check: Ken Block says 9 percent of R.I. workers go on short-term disability every year, for an average of 12 weeks each
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: John Hill
Date published: 2014-04-15T00:00:00