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If a person in the Houston area is unable to work due to an injury, he or she may qualify for Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits to help replace some of the lost wages. This is true regardless of whether the person's injury occurred while at work or at any...
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is supposed to help people who are too injured or ill to work. American workers fund the SSDI program through their payroll taxes. Thus, it is available to people in Houston, and everywhere else in the country, if they have...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people throughout the United States die of cancer. Moreover, according to the American Cancer Society, more than 1.6 million people will be diagnosed with cancer this year alone. Although breakthroughs in treatment have allowed...
People in Houston who are fortunate enough to have never had a mental illness, or to not have had a close relative or friend with one, may not fully understand how disabling some mental illnesses can be. But the reality is that people who suffer from mental illness...
It can be extremely troubling for Texas residents when they don't know how they are going to make ends meet. They may not know how they are going to pay for basic living necessitates, let alone extras. However, this is reality for many people who are living with...
As some readers of this blog already know, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a federal program that the Social Security Administration handles to help elderly, blind and disabled individuals who do not have other substantial forms of income. The program is...
If a person gets hurt or sick while he or she is working, he or she may be able to get workers' compensation benefits. These benefits are designed to be like an insurance program for workers. The employer pays into the program, and if a worker suffers an injury while...
Based on data from last year, roughly 10.9 million people in the United States receive Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits. For many of these people, including some in the Houston area, their reliance on SSD benefits is the result of an injury from a work...
Heart disease is a rampant and costly problem that affects people all throughout the United States, including far too many in the Houston area. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease kills roughly 610,000 people per year in the U.S....
When a person in Houston suffers a physical disability like blindness, or an injury like a broken leg, other people can easily understand how the disabled or injured person might not be able to function in everyday life the same way that other people can. For example,...