The process of procuring veterans disability benefits can be long and arduous, as The Christian Science Monitor reports that there are more than 500,000 people who have claims in the backlog. While Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki promises this backlog will end by 2015, veterans will still need help to receive their benefits in many cases.
Many Americans suffer from mental illness, but they don’t have to fight it without help. Social Security disability benefits can be received to help make up for money lost by an inability to work or perform tasks as normal. PsychCentral said in many patients, their illness can prevent them from properly filling out an application for benefits, so help should be sought to ensure approval is a possibility.
With more than 42,000 veterans eligible for veterans benefits and medical care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, this is one of the more common injuries that happens during service. More than $2,500 per month is available for injured veterans who suffer from parplegia, tetraplegia and other injuries of the spine.
Those suffering from disability qualifying conditions are also hurting in the job market. According to data from the U.S. Department of Labor, the unemployment rate for Americans with disabilities is now up to 13.6 percent for May, up 0.7 percent from the previous month. Unfortunately for those who are suffering, this does not look to be getting better in the immediate future, as the total unemployment rate also ticked up slightly to 7.6 percent in May.
