When people think about the types of disabilities that make it impossible for someone to work it is likely that physical disabilities are the first to come to mind. The reality, however, is that there are many individuals throughout the Atlanta area who are unable to...
Month: May 2013
Federal ‘PROMISE’ plan to promote independence for kids on SSI
As of last year, studies have shown, more than a million children in the U.S. were receiving benefits through the Supplemental Security Income program, or SSI, due to childhood disabilities. Many of those disabilities are permanent and will prevent them from working...
Should home care workers for SSD recipients get the minimum wage?
Even in the best situations, home health aides aren't paid high salaries. One such worker recently interviewed for a Kaiser Health News story makes more than the federal minimum wage and gets paid at time-and-a-half for overtime, which is often mandatory. The national...
Study: childhood disability, chiefly mental, up 16 percent in US
A major statistical review just presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies found that the number of children with disabilities, as reported by their parents, grew by 16 percent between 2002 and 2010 in the U.S. Moreover, the number of children...
SSDI claim increases were long expected, NOSSCR president notes
As we've discussed on this blog before, there has been a lot of talk lately about the fact that the number of people receiving Social Security disability benefits in the U.S. has been rising rapidly -- and that rise appears to track with the unemployment rate, at...