Short-term disability is a type of government-run insurance or employer benefit that gives you income replacement for a temporary period when you are unable to work due to a covered illness, injury, ...

A pair of bills that aim to ease the lengthy appeals process for disability claims with the Department of Veterans Affairs would keep the same judge on cases, track delays on pending claims and ...

People don't get to choose the illnesses that render them too disabled to work, but insurance companies have the power to approve or deny claims based on where in the body their condition exists. It's ...

The attorneys at Robert Peirce & Associates have been helping individuals that can no longer work, due to an injury or chronic illness, since the firm was established. Bob Peirce, founder of the firm, ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs now has an enormous amount of paperwork to correct after a staffer “blindly” approved thousands of disability claims without properly reviewing them for close to two ...

Two men salute while participating in New York City’s Veterans Day parade Nov. 11. Republican and Democratic lawmakers in some two dozen states have introduced bills aimed at restricting or legalizing ...

RICHMOND, Va – People from Virginia and beyond say they're struggling to navigate a system meant to help those unable to work. They're applying for disability benefits through the Social Security ...

Along with a baffling rise in post-pandemic mortality rates that has insurers stymied, the number of Americans claiming disabilities has skyrocketed since 2020, adding another puzzling factor that ...

Billy Whyde, a Navy veteran in Columbus, has filed five disability claims in 15 months with the Department of Veterans Affairs for a chronic neurological condition he said he developed after exposure ...