One reason disability claims have risen over the past decade (front page, Sept. 2) is that spending on mental illness, and insurance reimbursements for treating it, have been severely cut.
For that reason, disability issues have had a profound impact on me – the work is depressing (there is never enough money) but it is also very deep, and inspiring too.
A second reason disability recipiency rates may have varied across countries over time is that the eligible populations in those nations may have evolved differently.
For historical and political reasons, disability policy data users and governmental data generators have a long tradition of antagonism.
Around this time, for a variety of social reasons, disability issues became prominent across a whole range of disciplines including science.
Of the 550 adolescents invited to participate, 21 were excluded owing to one of several reasons (disability, cystic fibrosis, insufficient command of the Dutch language, or duration of diabetes <1 year).
Finally, the Article demonstrates how ADA accommodation expenses are an appropriate and reasonable remedy and explains why, for both economic and prudential reasons, disability-related accommodations must operate as antidiscrimination provisions (rather than as tax-and-spend subsidies) in order to alter social attitudes towards the disabled.
"(B) The term 'period of trial work', with respect to an individual who is an aged, blind, or disabled individual solely by reason of disability (as determined under paragraph (3) of this subsection), means a period of months beginning and ending as provided in subparagraphs (C) and (D).
In 2002, it was the second-most common reason for disability pension, responsible for 22% of all disability pensions [ 1].
In 2002, it was the second-most common reason for disability pension, being responsible for 22% of all disability pensions [ 1].
This is consistent with other research that has found that psychiatric hospitalization among under-65 years of age, disabled, Medicare-funded beneficiaries, where reason for disability is mental problems, has increased steadily since the mid-1980s.
