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The Social Security Administration is eliminating more than 100 obsolete jobs from its list of occupations it used for years to deny disability benefits to Americans under claims that they could earn money by finding jobs in those fields. The agency had been using federal labor market data that in some cases had not been updated in almost 50 years, and some of the jobs that are now eliminated were "notorious examples of our failure to stay up to date," according to Commissioner Martin O'Malley. ...
Child with Disabilities Denied Education at international... for education shall not limit, exclude or deny the participation of persons with disabilities on the grounds of disability...
WHO fact sheet on disability and health provides key facts and information on unmet needs for health care, secondary conditions, how lives of disabled people affected, barriers to health care and W...
Joe Battista lived the life of a hero — and it cost him his mind. The retired FDNY firefighter who spent months at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks died in obscurity at a Florida mental hospital suffering from a crippling depression and posttraumatic stress disorder, his family said. Battista’s long struggle with PTSD ended April 5, when he choked to death on some food while being cared for at the institution. He was 63. Yet in life, and now in death, the FDNY has refused to grant Battista...
But the hospital, in a small Oregon town, denied the ventilator she needed. Instead, a doctor... The lawyers work for Disability Rights Oregon (DRO), a federally funded legal group that...
Sophie Shuttleworth said she feels she is stuck in "limbo" while in hospital ; When Sophie woke up from an induced coma, she needed a wheelchair ; Brookside bungalows in Newport require residents to be aged 60 or over ; Holly Greader said disabled young people have the same needs as disabled older people
A man who attempted to board a Porter Airlines flight at the Calgary airport on Sunday is calling for clearer disability policies for airlines, after he was told he could not board the...
People with disabilities have long been asking for -- and denied -- accommodations that quickly rolled out to the masses once lockdown began.
Find out if you are eligible for benefits through Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI).