Helping People With Disabilities Nationwide
It's a startling fact that the disabled population has rates of substance abuse that are as much as four times higher than those who are not disabled. Those suffering from visual impairments, orthopedic and spinal cord injuries, and amputations fall into the...
Do you struggle with taking new medications, unrelenting seizures of various kinds and the inability to plan for your day because of your medical condition? Many people with epilepsy deal with seizures over much of their lives. Others who take medication find that it...
When people think of blindness as a disability, they often imagine it to be absolute. They understand that vision issues like farsightedness or nearsightedness can make it more difficult to see without corrective lenses, and they assume blindness is just the extreme...
Wars can leave behind many battle scars, especially for the soldiers that fight them. Data compiled by researchers at Brown University shows that there are nearly one million veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars receiving disability benefits from the U.S....
Suffering from burn injuries does not automatically qualify you for Social Security Disability benefits. Just as with any other disability, there are criteria that you must meet to have your application successfully approved.One of the first things that reviewers look...
After applying for benefits, it may come as a shock when you receive the news that your claim was denied. How is this possible? You were hurt at work and did everything you thought you needed to do, so what happened? Unfortunately, many injured workers find themselves...
One of the most important things to understand to about Social Security disability is that you're more likely to be approved the older that you are.Social Security has specifically set up what is called the "grid rules" to take into account a claimant's age,...
I recently took a phone call from a client whose disability case had been approved several years ago after a hearing.Her initial claim was based on physical impairments, but she said that she has now been diagnosed with mental health issues and wanted to know if that...
Many veterans come back with serious physical injuries that leave substantial scars even after they heal. For some, though, these scars are "invisible" and internal. They are the product of serious emotional and mental damage done by time served in a war zone, and...
A spinal cord injury can leave you with paralysis that impacts you below the level of that injury. For some, this means the loss of the use of their legs. For others, it is everything below the neck. All injuries are different.What is the same is that these injuries...
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