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Smartphone app used for disability benefits in Washington
Smartphone app offers help for people seeking disability benefits
By Aaron Leitko, Published: October 10
In trying times it’s nice to know there’s a place to turn for answers: your smartphone. The Advocator Group, an organization that helps Americans obtain disability benefits, has released a new smartphone app, “Disability Answers,” to help people with debilitating health conditions and their families handle the bureaucratic minefield surrounding Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare eligibility.
Family home carers can benefit from having the internet
Carers can feel isolated in society so here we can see how the internet can change their world.
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Time to Make Winter Fuel Allowance Fair
10 October 2011
A number of campaigning organisations, including Contact a Family and Scope, attempt each year to get this benefit paid to those in most need
One of the topics I wrote about in last week’s IL newsletter was the Winter Fuel Allowance: the annual payment which is made to people who are over 60, to help with heating costs.
A number of the responses I received pointed up once again the extraordinary unfairnesses built-in to this benefit. It is paid without means-testing to everyone of the relevant age, whether or not they are working. It is not paid to younger disabled people, however great their need.
