54Freedom.com Politics Posts
Those on disability qualify for Homestead Exemption
TALLADEGA COUNTY — Many in the area may not know about a property tax exemption available to permanently disabled citizens and some senior citizens in Alabama.
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Campaign to end 2-year insurance gap for disabled
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress and the Obama administration should end the two-year wait that people deemed too sick to work by the government face before qualifying for Medicare, lawmakers and leading advocacy groups said Wednesday.
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An alarming trend within the Veterans Affairs system
We’ve uncovered the amount of disability pay a vet receives can depend on where he or she lives. And Ohio’s disabled veterans are some of the poorest paid in the country.
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Veterans Groups Sue Bush Administration Over Delayed Benefits Claims
Coming on the heels of the discovery that veterans’ benefit claims forms may have been shredded in regional offices nationwide, two veterans’ organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs. They’re attacking a related and, they say, similarly egregious problem: the time it takes for the VA to make a decision on a disability claim.
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Broadened ADA could mean more litigation
In September, President Bush signed into law amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 that greatly expand the ADA’s coverage by broadening the definition of disability.
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Disability Doesn’t Keep Indiana Man From Voting
The thought of standing in a long line to vote may get you down. If only it were that easy for Dr. Arun Goel. The Northwest Indiana man is paralyzed from the neck down. So, he depends on others. But the one thing he doesn’t need help with is making up his mind.
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More Hope for the Disabled?
While Obama’s track record on protecting the unborn is abysmal, there is hope that his administration will make some strides in protecting and caring for the disabled.
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Disabled voting: Excercise your rights
A Kleenex. A jump-start on an icy day. A quarter for the paper machine.
Help getting through a crowded voting line.
So I found out Tuesday. I have a back problem right now that on some days makes me resemble the Hunchback of Notre Dame. I knew I couldn’t stand in line for 35 minutes, as some in my polling place were doing. Luckily, I told poll workers at Glidewell Baptist Church the problem, and they plopped me into a chair and put a person in my place in line. When she got to the front of the line, I got to vote.
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Free up cash for disabled in need
It’s a curiosity that while Colorado voters have transformed the state’s political power structure from Republican to Democratic in the last four years, they neglected last week to dismantle the Taxpayers Bill of Rights that has so bedeviled basic government services.
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County budget erodes support for adults with severe disabilities
MATTHEW DeFOUR
608-252-6144
mdefour@madison.com
Dane County’s funding for developmentally disabled people is being spread thinner, angering some service providers and intensifying the debate about how the county’s commitment to its most vulnerable citizens has changed over the years.
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