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The age and vocational factors come into play in determining whether or not an individual who can no longer perform their past work is able to adjust to other work. However, ability to adjust to work ...

WASHINGTON – Assessments of a person’s ability to function at work provide important information for disability determinations, and many validated tests are available to assess work-related physical ...

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Frank Joyce, a registered nurse, has been appointed senior director of UMass Medical School’s Disability Evaluation Services, following a successful stint as interim senior director. In this senior ...

The SSDI program is broken—financially and functionally. Too many people receive unwarranted benefits, straining the program and hurting those who truly need it. A proposed bill would make SSDI work ...

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MANILA, Philippines - Rex Bernardo was afflicted with polio when he was five years old and just about to enter kindergarten. A wrongly administered vaccine damaged his nerves, causing lifelong damage ...