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ADA - Prohibits private employers, state and local governments, employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures. Read more
Air Carrier Access Act - The Air Carrier Access Act 1986 prohibits discrimination in air transportation by domestic and foreign air carriers against qualified individuals with physical or mental impairments. Read more
Brain Disability - Brain injury has been called the "silent epidemic" since most people don't know about brain injury, let alone its consequences. Read more
Disability Clause - A disability clause is a life insurance-policy provision providing for a waiver pr premiums during the policyholder’s period of disability. Read more
Disability Overview - Disability law is largely regulated by the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ADA ) of 1990. Read more
Disability Compensation - Disability compensation benefits are payments from public or private funds to a disabled person who cannot work. Read more
Disability Discrimination - America has made great progress in recent years in removing the artificial barriers that can prevent people with disabilities from achieving economic self-sufficiency and participating fully in our society. But progress can't be taken for granted. Read more
Disability Insurance Benefits - A person must prove that he or she became disabled while disability insurance coverage was in force or you are not entitled to Disability Insurance Benefits. Read more
Disability Fraud - Any claim for SDI benefits where a person, alone or in collusion with any other person, willfully makes a false statement or misrepresentation, or withholds a material fact for the purpose of collecting SDI benefits. Read more
Disability Retirement Plan - An employee benefit disability retirement plan is a written stock purchase, savings, option, bonus, stock-appreciation, profit-sharing, thrift, incentive, pension fund. Read more
Disfigurement/Mutilation - A states’ workers’ compensation law may permit the employee to be compensated for disfigurement, mutilation. Read more
EEOC - The EEOC was established by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and began operating on July 2, 1965. Read more
Fair Housing Act - Requires owners of housing facilities to make reasonable exceptions in their policies and operations to afford people with disabilities equal housing opportunities. Read more
FSSA - The federal Social Security Act is a federal law, originally established in 1935 in response to the 1935 Great Depression. Read more
IDEA - Requires public schools to make available to all eligible children with disabilities a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment. Read more
Limb Disability - Limb disabilities pertains to loss of limbs (arms, legs, etc.) or the serious injury of limbs. Read more
OSHA - The mission of OSHA is to ensure safe and healthful workplaces in America. Read more
Permanent Partial Disability - employee may be eligible for temporary partial disability when he or she is able to do some work but is still recuperating from the effects of the injury. Read more
Permanent Total Disability - In order to receive these benefits it must generally be shown that the employee is unable to return to work in any capacity, and that this is a permanent problem. Read more
Rehabilitation Act - The Rehabilitation Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs conducted by Federal agencies. Read more
Spinal Cord Disability - Spinal Cord Injuries can lead to lifelong disabilities. Read more
Supplemental Income -
If you have not worked enough in the past 10 years to be insured for Disability Insurance Benefits or have not worked at all in the last ten years you may still be eligible. Read more
Telecommunications Act - These amendments ensure that people with disabilities will have access to a broad range of products and services such as telephones. Read more
Temporary Total Disability - This benefit is payable when the injured worker is unable to work during a period when he/she is under active medical caret. Read more
Temporary Partial Disability - An employee may be eligible for temporary partial disability when he or she is able to do some work but is still recuperating from the effects of the injury. Read more
Vision Disability - Millions of people every year suffer from minor to serious vision impairments or injuries that result in time away from work. Read more
Workers’ Compensation - Workmens Comp is a system of providing benefits to an employee for injuries occurring in the scope of employment. Read more
Workers’ Comp Board - The workers' compensation board is an agency that reviews cases arising under workers' compensation statutes and administers the related rules. Read more
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