In a surprising new study that doesn't really have an answer for the statement it makes, the National Center for Policy Analysis found that since 1970, the amount of women receiving Social Security disability payments has increased dramatically. As of 2012, 48 percent...

This may sound hyperbolic and surprising, but about 25 percent of today's 20-year-olds will suffer some sort of disability before they reach retirement age. As a result, they may be forced to take fewer shifts at work or to leave the workforce completely. That puts an...

Serious workplace accidents happen all the time. It's an unfortunate reality, but it is our reality nonetheless. When these workplace accidents occur, there are a lot of questions that need to be asked by investigators. Did the workplace have previous violations for...

Commentators say that there seems to be a stigma attaching to post-traumatic stress disorder. Advocates believe that public perception, possibly based upon media coverage of recent events, has begun to lean toward the misconception that PTSD is associated with...

Many St. Louis residents have probably heard of the medical condition fibromyalgia before, but they may not know what it is. In many respects, it is quite apt that people are confused by what the condition is because fibromyalgia is mysterious by nature. For a long...

Many readers probably know someone who has been affected by breast cancer -- or have personally been impacted by the disease. Receiving a cancer diagnosis is never welcome news, but many breast cancer patients gain strength from the support of loved ones to bravely...

Have you ever heard of a "sheltered workshop?" These workplaces hire people living with disabilities, which is a noble intention indeed. But the problem with these sheltered workshops is that they pay their employees mere pennies on the dollar of other employees. In...

More Americans than ever are currently receiving Social Security Disability benefits because of illnesses and conditions that leave them unable to work full time. In March 2013, a record 10,939,936 were receiving SSD benefits, which represented a 42 percent increase...

In our Saint Louis Social Security disability law blog, we have said before that a disability isn’t something a person is but something that they have. This differentiation isn’t always that easy for other people to see. A disability such as epilepsy,...

With the recent predictions that the Disability Insurance Trust Fund could become bankrupt at some point in the near future, concern over fraud within the program has also become an issue. Administrative law judges with high claim approval percentages -- up to 99.7...