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Another factor is simply the increase in unemployment. It's much easier for an employee with a job to request reasonable accommodation than it is to get [i]hired[/i] with a disability. When there are...
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An older study: http://www.nber.org/bah/fall06/w12436.html > The most important factor [in the growth in the DI rolls] is the liberalization of the DI screening process that occurred due to a 1984...
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The note from Scott above, concerning musculoskeletal disorders, brings out a further difficulty with adjudicating disability. My experience is that when the rewards are high enough, people are willing...
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Kudos for this - it is extremely rare to see in this context any mention at all of physical demands presented by lower paid work. But the difference between SS disability and workers' comp disability...
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[quote]certainly isn't the headachy desk-sitters that are buying Tylenol or Advil 500 pills[/quote] Gentro, The aging of the baby boomers is probably the main reason for the expanding use of pain meds....
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[quote]written by AlanInAZ, September 21, 2013 2:40 I doubt that more people as a percentage of the total workforce are working on their feet than in the past given the manufacturing sector shrinkage...
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@AlaninAZ - Thanks very much; my hypothesis on the large bottles of otc pain pills regarded normal headache use versus chronic body pain use. (And if buying Tylenol 500 at a time is what's happening,...
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Is the suggestion is being made that someone making $500/month working can get $1100/month on SSDI? No. The lower your pay, the lower your benefit. No one is getting nearly as much money not working as...
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Another difficulty with disability payments is that, for the disabled person, there is no going back to even a part-time job. Please correct me if I mess up the details -- I live in Canada so I don't...
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@denise - the article indicated $471/[b]WEEK[/b] working compared to $1130/[b]MONTH[/b] on disability. Working does earn more in this scenario. - Redwood Rhiadra
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