Some Things Everyone Should Know About Disability

Did you know? A year of disability can erase 10 years worth of the economy.

Other things to know about disability:

- 7 of 10 people aged between 35 and 65 disability for a period of three months or more.

- The average length of disability for more than 90 days is 36 months.

- Most American families have only enough money in savings to cover two months worth of bills.

- In 2000, wages and loss of productivity development unintential injuries was 259.8 billion dollars (Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2002)

- The maximum Social Security disability payment of 30 years earn $ 70,000 a year to only $ 1600 per month.

- For social security disability, your disability must be at least 12 months.

- Social Security disability is only authorized a payment of a claim of at least 5 months.

So if you are suddenly disabled … How would you pay your bills?

What is the disability?

The Random House Webster’s Dictionary of American English defines disability as follows: “The lack of sufficient firmness or the possibility of incapacity, physical or mental, everything that is disabled or inconvenience to a”

The Social Security Administration defines disability as “The inability, in a mainly due to a medically determinable physical or mental harm, which expects that lead to death or took or may be the last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months. “Highlight added

In other words: the rule of disability means that you are not able to work. Disability and social security means that you are not able to work on something.

Disability can happen at any time, to anyone - regardless of race, religion, sex or occupation.

Sometimes, people with disabilities to drive violations in a car accident caused the death. And sometimes it is a very simple question, get hurt, while participation in sports, or improving your apartment in your off hours.

A very frequent violations, which means that you are unable to work, is a back injury. And yet the injury may simply furniture in a garden or fixing a leak in the roof.

Other people are not able to work because of illness or the occurrence of a disease that diabetes, heart attack or stroke. And, of course, pregnancy can lead to what some women are not able to work if other complications of pregnancy, the woman to stay in bed, she is unable to work.

This can happen even to you.

Unfortunately, often the man, only because they healthy, it can not be disabled. And it is simply not true. Accidents. To be healthy is, in general, not having to do with, if you have a disability.

Let’s take a look at some facts:

- In 2000, wages and productivity losses was unintentional 259.8 billion (Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2002)

- In 1999: 338,000 people were injured in a fall

- In 1999: 141,000 people were injured by about effort

- In 1999: 338,000 people and distortions

And some of the possibilities, these violations include:

- To hand saws

- Hammers

- Kitchen Renault

- Beds

- Tables

- Scales

- Carpets and rugs

- Shoes

- Bicycles

- Swimming pool

If you want to know more about disability and ways to protect you and your family, consult the rest of this report online.