The VA disability benefits framework was designed to provide veterans with structured, lawful access to compensation ...

Recent data highlights a significant escalation in mental health challenges across the Canadian workforce, contributing to a marked increase in long-term disability (LTD) claims. For instance, the ...

The prevalence of 'sickfluencers' - such as the male TikToker pictured - is thought to be partly responsible for the rise in disability payments in recent months ...

Editor’s note: This article was first published in KFF Health News, a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. It is one of the core operating programs at KFF — the ...

Marie, who left a corporate job in Missouri after contracting COVID-19 in the first wave and then developing what came to be known as long COVID, received five months of short-term disability through ...

Objectives To examine whether differences in work disability duration between out-of-province and within-province workers differed by industry and jurisdictional context. Methods Workers’ compensation ...

SACRAMENTO — After suspending 345,000 disability checks because of fraud concerns, California officials on Thursday said nearly all of those claims were associated with criminals trying to trick the ...

One in five Canadians will experience a mental illness at some point in their life and many of those people may seek disability payments to help them cope, but experts say the process is often so ...

Mississippi has a higher processing time for claims that what SSA deems reasonable. The average field offices makes a determination in eight days. Mississippi DDS takes 76 days on average to decide.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is juggling a variety of challenges to deliver benefits more quickly and work down its backlog of disability claims, which skyrocketed last year as the COVID-19 ...