Waiting may seem like a simple and annoying, aspect of our lives, but for 1.1 million disability claimants in the U.S., it’s an excruciating, life-numbing process and often a matter of life or death. On November 21, 2017, the front page of The Washington Post featured a striking piece on the current state of the…
Continue readingA recent blurb in the Washington Post revealed that 72 retired New York City police officers, eight firefighters, five prison guards, and one police officer from Nassau County have been charged with faking psychiatric problems to collect federal disability benefits. That is 86 people collecting years’ worth of benefits to which they were not entitled!…
Continue readingWhat if you are disabled and unable to work? You would file for Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) benefits. Sounds simple enough. Now let us consider another – more complicated – question. What if there was a treatment for your disability which would allow you to work, BUT you cannot afford that treatment? Can your…
Continue readingWho could have missed the recent inspirational story about the quadruple-amputee, 26-year-old war veteran Brendan Marrocco, who underwent successful double arm transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore? Marrocco was the first military veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to have survived the loss of four limbs. Although it is unlikely that…
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A backlog of appeals at the Social Security Administration has left hundreds of thousands of disabled claimants bankrupt, evicted and in some cases dead, attorneys and agency officials say. Governmental infighting has slowed the hiring of new judges to hear SSDI appeals, which currently numbers 755,000. The wait for Hearings before an Administrative Law Judge…
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