{"id":623,"date":"2013-04-01T20:35:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T17:44:41","slug":"bill-being-introduced-to-eliminate-disability-wait-times-for-the-terminally-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/blog\/bill-being-introduced-to-eliminate-disability-wait-times-for-the-terminally-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Being Introduced to Eliminate Disability Wait Times For the Terminally Ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the average wait time for a decision to be reached on a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"\/\/www.lawyersforsocialsecurity.com\/compassionate-allowance.php\">Social Security Disability Claim<\/a><\/strong> inching towards almost a year, lawmakers are looking for ways to improve the efficiency of the process. In fact, one New York House delegate has introduced a bill that would put terminally ill patients on a fast-track to receiving benefits.<\/p>\n<p>According to Channel 12 News, Rep. Steve Israel plans to introduce a bill that would wave those suffering from terminal conditions from having to wait a required five-month period to get benefits. Israel explained the bill was created after hearing the story of a 64-year-old woman who was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and was told she had less than a year to live. She soon stopped work to begin treatment and vigorously applied for Social Security Disability; however, she was told she would have to wait five-months before receiving her first benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Israel called it \u201coutrageous\u201d that someone with limited life expectancy does not receive benefits in a more timely manner. He went on the explain his bill will be introduced to a House committee in the next several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Newlin Disability and their team of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"\/\/www.lawyersforsocialsecurity.com\/\">Social Security Disability Lawyers<\/a><\/strong> are hopeful the bill will be successful in making benefits more accessible to those with the most need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the average wait time for a decision to be reached on a\u00a0Social Security Disability Claim inching towards almost a year, lawmakers are looking for ways to improve the efficiency of the process. In fact, one New York House delegate has introduced a bill that would put terminally ill patients on a fast-track to receiving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}