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Eighty years ago this month, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The implications for California and all other U.S. retirees, and eventually disabled individuals too, have been far reaching.Over the course of those decades a lot of...
Private insurance companies tend to be pretty strict about what evidence they want and how they want it when it comes to making determinations about what claims they will pay and which they will not. It should surprise no one in Fresno or the rest of California that...
Today's veterans benefit system is in place with the best of intentions. The goal is to provide material support to those who suffer disability as a result of military service to our country. Securing benefits for disabled veterans can be complicated, however, and can...
The struggle for the rights of people with any form of disability can be a hard one. Whether a person is born with a physical or intellectual disability or becomes disabled due to injury or illness, the process of obtaining support allowed under law can be...
Ben Franklin gets credit for saying that there are only two things certain in life -- death and taxes. Some have offered that there might be a third -- mistakes will be made.Considering the history of veterans' benefits, including some recent items that have made the...
There is no easy answer to the question posed here. Every Social Security Disability Insurance case is different. Individual circumstances and precedents from other cases in California and the rest of the country can be big factors in determining whether a case...
As a practice focused on Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income issues we keep a close eye on developments related to those programs. Funding has been a big concern for quite some time.Regular readers in Fresno and elsewhere are aware of...
Many who have been through the process know that applying for Social Security Disability Insurance can be like paddling a canoe upstream. Sometimes it can seem that no matter how hard you work at it, the end goal seems further out of reach with each passing day.As we...
The concept of Social Security is fairly straightforward. It's supposed to serve as a safety net. It does that through the delivery of a variety of benefits. Supplemental Security Income is the program based on financial need of a disabled person.Then there are the...
One of the basic tenets of the U.S. legal system is that individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. A lot of effort goes into trying to uphold that ideal in law enforcement and both civil and criminal court settings. It might not always be achieved, but...