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Supplemental Security Income Appeals Process

Aggrieved individuals may appeal initial determinations of the Social Security Administration with respect to a variety of issues. A non-exhaustive list of appealable issues includes whether an individual is eligible to receive Supplemental...

Dual-Purpose Travel by Employee

"Dual-purpose" travel by an employee occurs when the employee embarks on a trip on behalf of the employer that coincides with travel for the employee's benefit. In other words, the journey serves both the business purpose of the employer and the...

Workers' Compensation & SSDI

Injury While in the Course of Employment

Workers' Compensation Eligibility

It is a threshold matter that for an employee to be eligible to recover workers' compensation...

Black Lung Benefits Act - Defining "Totally Disabled Due to Pneumoconiosis"

The Black Lung Benefits Act does not provide benefits for a partial disability. Rather, in order to recover under the Act, a miner must be totally disabled as a result of pneumoconiosis. The miner bears the burden of proof to demonstrate that he...

Workers' Compensation and Employee Status

Whether an individual is eligible to receive workers' compensation benefits turns on the individual's employment status. Only employees are entitled to such benefits; individual contractors are not.

Employee versus...