Disability Law

Social Security Delays Cheat the Vulnerable

From the Kansas City Star:

For years you?ve paid insurance premiums to protect yourself against unforeseen health problems. Yet when an accident or serious illness strikes, the insurer refuses to pay up.

That?s essentially theft, the kind of thing people expect the government to step in and stop.

But in this case, it is the government itself ? Social Security, to be precise ? that is cheating ailing and injured people out of the money to which they are entitled. Read full editorial here:

Full post as published by Social Security Disability Law Blog on March 25, 2008 (boomark / email).