| Cessation of Social Security Disability Benefits Based on Lack of Disability |
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| Social security disability benefits are paid only so long as the individual remains disabled. The Social Security Administration (SSA) will cease paying benefits if the individual can engage in substantial gainful activity. The Social Security Disability Reform Act of 1984 established conditions for the cessation of disability benefits based on a lack of disability, which include: More... |
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| Employee's Failure to Obey Safety Rules as Statutory Defense |
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| When an employee claims workers' compensation benefits are due to him based on an injury that occurred on the job, many states allow an employer to defend itself by presenting evidence that the employee wilfully disobeyed the employer's prescribed safety rules or purposefully neglected to use a safety device. Although in rare cases the defense represents a complete bar to the employee's recovery of benefits, usually the employee's recovery is just subject to a reduction. More... |
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| What is Social Security Disability Insurance? |
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| The Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program was created through the Social Security Act of 1935 to partially replace an individual's lost earnings due to a physical or mental impairment that prevents the individual from working. A qualified disabled worker's condition is one that leaves the individual unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of a medically determinable impairment that has lasted or is expected to last at least twelve months, or to end in death. More... |
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| Social Security Benefits |
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| Though most states require that the injured worker be subject to a contract for hire to receive workers' compensation benefits, such benefits will usually be denied if the contract for hire is illegal. However, the illegality must arise from the nature of the employment and the worker's performance of illegal acts as opposed to the illegality that arises in the making of the contract itself. More... |
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| Recreational and Social Activities |
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| Within the Course of Employment) More... |
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