‘Managers told me to put mustard on it’: fast-food workers say burns are rampant, file OSHA complaints
by Kara Dolan-West | Mar 19, 2015 | In the News
More than two dozen low-wage McDonald’s workers filed health and safety complaints against the fast-food chain on Monday, alleging that understaffing and time pressures in stores have led to burns, falls and other injuries, according to...read more >>
Why did the WSJ use years-old data to attack Social Security disability?
by Kara Dolan-West | Mar 17, 2015 | Social Security in the News
At first glance, an op-ed in Monday’s Wall Street Journal makes a devastating case against Social Security’s disability system. On closer inspection, the case isn’t so clear. “A system designed to serve society’s vulnerable has morphed...read more >>
Residual Disabilities
by Kara Dolan-West | Mar 13, 2015 | General Information
Ohio Revised Code § 4123.52 provides the Commission with continuing jurisdiction to make modifications, changes, findings, or awards if written notice of a claim relating to the specific part or parts of the body injured or...read more >>
Ohio bill would allow workers’ compensation for PTSD
by Kara Dolan-West | Mar 11, 2015 | In the News
COLUMBUS — Emergency responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder could be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits even if they don’t have physical injuries under proposed legislation being considered by an Ohio Senate panel. It would apply...read more >>
The demolition of workers’ compensation nationally
by Kara Dolan-West | Mar 04, 2015 | In the News
DENNIS WHEDBEE’S CREW WAS RUSHING to prepare an oil well for pumping on the Sweet Grass Woman lease site, a speck of dusty plains rich with crude in Mandaree, North Dakota. It was getting late that...read more >>
Blurring the lines between TTD and PTD
by Kara Dolan-West | Feb 14, 2015 | Permanent Total Disability Compensation
The roles of temporary total disability (TTD) and permanent total disability (PTD) are supposed to be separate and distinct. TTD is designed to compensate an injured worker for a loss of earnings while he or she...read more >>
Social Security strategy to boost couples’ benefits
by Kara Dolan-West | Feb 12, 2015 | Social Security Benefits
WASHINGTON — With one out of every four 65-year-olds living past age 90 and one in 10 living beyond 95, having enough money to live on during a retirement that could last 30 years or more...read more >>
Social Security will not seize tax refunds for past debts
by Kara Dolan-West | Feb 07, 2015 | Social Security in the News
People who owe old debts to the Social Security Administration are getting a reprieve this tax season: The federal government won’t be seizing their tax refunds. Acting Social Security Commissioner Carolyn Colvin suspended a debt collection...read more >>
Forty Individuals Arrested and Indicted for Social Security Fraud
by Kara Dolan-West | Jan 21, 2015 | Social Security in the News
Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 15, 2015 Forty Individuals Arrested and Indicted for Social Security Fraud On Jan. 12 and 13, 2015, a federal grand jury in the District...read more >>
House rule could set up explosive battle over Social Security
by Kara Dolan-West | Jan 16, 2015 | Social Security in the News
WASHINGTON – Buried in new rules that will govern the House for the next two years is a provision that could force an explosive battle over Social Security’s finances on the eve of the 2016 presidential...read more >>