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Questions About Disability Laws

When individuals become ill or injured and are unable to continue working, they worry about whether they'll ever be able to work again and how they'll make ends meet. Most persons with disabilities have lots of questions, about the potential benefits they can apply for to make up for lost wages, about how they can get health care, and about their rights against employment or housing discrimination or being fired. Here are answers to some common questions we get from readers who are in the same boat.

Both Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) are federal programs administered by the Social Security Administration.

A Social Security representative payee helps disabled individuals manage their benefits.

Challenging an established onset date for SSDI or SSI is possible, but it might not be worth it unless you stand to gain a good deal more money in back payments.

If you start working, or your medical condition improves, or you change your living situation, your disability benefits could be terminated.

Social Security benefits sometimes make up the bulk of a person's income, so it's important to know whether getting married will affect the receipt of these benefits.

Nolo's book covers Medicaid rules for seniors and persons with disabilities.

Written by a former SSA medical consultant, Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability is the essential book for learning about the disability process, and can be helpful whether you hire or lawyer or not.

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