Tag: musculoskeletal condition
A unique situation faces older workers with a disability: apply for federal disability insurance now or try to hold on and keep working to retirement age. Of course, people who leave the labor force and apply for disability are taking a risk: they might be denied the benefits. But another possible factor in how thes…
With the nation still in the midst of an opioid crisis, a new study provides the first estimate of opioid use among people who apply for disability. One out of every four applicants used opioids in 2017 – below the peak in 2012 but still significantly more than in the general population, according to researchers…
