A spinal cord injury can have lasting effects that make it extremely difficult to work. Many who suffer injuries to the neck and back are no longer able to hold down steady employment, leaving them wondering where to turn for financial relief. Social Security...
Social Security Disability Benefits for Injuries
Understanding the reason for reviewing a disability
Recipients of Social Security Disability benefits in New Jersey may eventually get to a point where they are able to fully resume working and may no longer need financial assistance. However, this process is often a gradual one and requires people to regularly...
Can I get SSDI benefits for brain injury?
For New Jersey residents who have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI), the damage can go beyond the brain and impact many different areas of the body, hindering their ability to work. With the variety of problems that accompany a brain injury along with the...
What is a spinal cord injury?
Whether it is because of a fall at work, an automobile collision or any other form of accident, suffering an injury to the back can be serious. It can be so serious that it can cause a person to suffer a disability. An injury to the back could impact the spinal cord,...
Back injuries and risks for long-term disability
We all get aches and pains from time to time. This is typically because we have overdone it at work, the gym or at home. These pains will often go away with rest and home remedies. However, these pains, especially those of the back, can be debilitating when a serious...
Seeking SSD benefits for injuries suffered in an accident
Because we are not invincible, injuries happen. While many of the injuries individuals in New Jersey and elsewhere suffer are minor, other injuries can be severe. So severe that it causes difficulties in the person's everyday life. It can be so difficult that an...
Early therapy doesn’t improve pain-related back disability
We all suffer from aches and pains from time to time. Maybe you ran a half marathon, spent a day doing yard work or had to shovel the driveway. Whether it is because of doing housework, work or a leisure activity, when an individual suffers from back pain, it can...
Can you recover SSD benefits following a brain injury?
Much like one does not expect to suffer great harms in an accident, one also does not expect to be unable to work because of this serious injury. Unfortunately, however, tragic accidents can happen. People are suddenly and shockingly disabled by a severe injury, such...
Work credits and Social Security disability
Let's face it. Suffering an injury is painful. Even something minor can cause very noticeable and distracting pain for weeks at a time. Thus, when an individual in New Jersey or elsewhere suffers a serious injury, he or she is likely to endure much pain that impacts...
SSD benefits following a workplace injury
For some individuals in New Jersey, he or she has been disabled since birth due to a birth injury, birth defect or a genetic condition or disorder. Others acquire a disability later in life. Specifically, a person is disabled because of an event, such as an accident....