Disability Law

Fight to the Death: Getting Disability Benefits in Oregon

Today’s Oregonian reports: Americans seeking Social Security?s disability benefits find themselves stuck in a morass of bureacracy that often takes years to navigate. Social Security officials say they?re working hard to remedy the backlog. But they acknowledge it?ll be years before they bring it under control. Meanwhile, claimants suffer and sometimes die waiting for a disability check.
Patricia Heimerl landed her first job in high school, bought a house at 22, and worked the last eight years of a long office career at Intel. She paid her bills, built a retirement account and, like most Americans, watched as Social Security took its cut from every paycheck. Read on…Portland has a wait of over 600 days for a hearing.
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Full post as published by Social Security Disability Law Blog on August 02, 2008 (boomark / email).