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Senior Partner Jordan A. Ziegler Gets His ‘Hands Dirty’ With Members of FDNY Maintenance and Repair Union
Jordan A. Ziegler, a senior partner at Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano, LLP, recently spoke to the crew at the F.D.N.Y. Review Avenue repair shop about workers’ compensation. In a lighter moment, he clutched a hammer in his right hand and grinned as he posed for a photo in front of an F.D.N.Y.…
Read More »Bill Before Committee Would Allow Expedited Social Security Disability Payments for the Terminally Ill
Under the current rules for the Social Security disability system, there is a five-month waiting period before SSDI benefits begin. This means that you cannot receive income from the Social Security Administration during the first five-months after you have been diagnosed with a disabling condition that prevents you from working. A Social Security Disability lawyer…
Read More »Employment Opportunities Looking Worse for the Disabled, Social Security Disability Benefits May Be The Only Lifeline
Finding a job in a tough economy is hard for everyone, but unfortunately the disabled face many more struggle than most applicants. While employers are required to make reasonable accommodations to hire a disabled individual, those who are disabled are still restricted to finding jobs that they can feasibly do despite their impaired condition. For…
Read More »Misunderstandings About Social Security Disability Benefits Lead to Unfair Criticism of Recipients
Recently, the New American discussed a survey that the Washington Examiner published regarding recipients of Social Security disability benefits. The New American reported that a 2009 study by the Social Security Administration showed that most recipients of federal disability checks acknowledged that finding a job was not a priority. Both the New American and the original…
Read More »The Autism Support Network Alerts Parents to The Possibility of Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits
The Autism Support Network provides important information to caregivers of children who have been diagnosed with autism and important advice to parents who might be struggling with the cost of caring for their autistic child. As the article pointed out, the Harvard School of Public Health estimates that caring for an autistic child can cost…
Read More »No, The Social Security Disability System is NOT “Backdoor Welfare”
Recently, Philly.com published an article with the provocative title: “Is Social Security disability program ‘backdoor welfare’?” The headline was prompted by commentary from Tad DeHaven, a research associate with a libertarian think tank called the Cato Institute, which examined the Social Security disability trust fund and said it was the most “ill-defined and exploited” government…
Read More »Researchers Show Disabilities Cannot be Prevented With Age
As medicine has improved and people have begun living longer, gerontologists once hoped for something called a “compression of morbidity.” This concept essentially meant that people would remain active and healthy for most of their lives and then, once they reached an advanced age, would die swiftly. Unfortunately, this has not materialized and the chances…
Read More »Workplace Exposure to Mold A Serious Respiratory Threat
When Hurricane Sandy hit, many areas throughout New York and New Jersey suffered severe damage. Unfortunately, not all homes and buildings have been completely rebuilt and repaired yet and many of the buildings are experiencing mold growth and other results of water damage. Older buildings in the New York area may also have sustained mold…
Read More »Construction Worker Rescued from Trench Highlights Dangers of Excavation Work
In mid-June a construction worker in Queens fell into a 25-foot hole and became trapped at the bottom of a ditch. The man had been engaged in excavation work when he fell into the ditch and was buried under hundreds of pounds of mud. Rescue workers had a difficult time extracting the man as every…
Read More »If You are on Disability, Employers are Watching
If you are receiving disability benefits through workers’ compensation and/or through the Social Security Administration, you must actually be disabled and qualify for the benefits that you are receiving. The vast majority of those who are receiving benefits are, in fact, unable to work and are truly in need of the help that is being…
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