And the processing of applications for disability benefits, a program of particular importance to people with low incomes, has been delayed because staff members aren't on hand to go through newly filed paperwork.
I fully agree the Department of Education did a horrible job of processing disability discharges over the past years.
Officials said this month that in seven states, 2,700 of those workers had been furloughed, further delaying the processing of tens of thousands of disability claims, which already take an average of 488 days to resolve.
Dan Nagin, an expert in vets' issues at Harvard, points out that one of the VA's current struggles is that it's evaluating benefits claims based on a (legally enshrined) WWI-era conception of disability that has trouble processing modern understandings of mental health issues or other complex medical problems.
And yet according to Michael Walcoff, the VA's deputy undersecretary of benefits, in processing veterans' disability claims, New York's Regional office is the second slowest in the nation out of 57 offices.
A team discussion and decision process was utilized to create three subgroups of disability: physical disability, cognitive disability, and ICF-based definitions of disability.
The Social Security Administration says a federal judge's ruling last week suspending a crackdown on employers who hire illegal immigrants could cause a major disruption in its processing of millions of routine retirement and disability claims.
To evaluate the efficacy of a computer-based intensive training program of attention, information processing and executive functions in patients with clinically-stable relapsing remitting (RR) multiple sclerosis (MS) and low levels of disability.
Definitions of disability vary considerably.
What degree of disability?
