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Social Security Disability and Unemployment Compensation

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I am seeing more Social Security Judges ask claimants if they have received Unemployment payments.

Some Administrative Law Judges believe it is inconsistent to ask for unemployment compensation and Social Security Disability.

When you get unemployment you represent that you can work, and when you apply for Social Security Disability you represent that you cannot work.

This is a dilemma.

The best way to answer may be to explain that you thought you could work part time but not full time.

Or that you could have worked a job in a very limited capacity.

If you have received unemployment during the time you are claiming disability, then you need to think very carefully about this question.

Questions about your Social Security Disability case? Feel free to call Illinois Social Security Disability Lawyer Dirk May at 309-827-4371.

Work Comp Settlements After August 2011

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For injuries after August 31, 2011 new rules apply to settlement value.

What this means for the value of your settlement is unknown.

Before we could predict within a range what a certain injury was worth.

What a new injury is worth is pure guess work at this point.

I would like to hear from you what kind of offers you are receiving.

Please feel free to call me, Dirk May, at 309-827-4371, or send comments to this blog.

I will keep people posted about the kind of offers Workers’ Compensation insurance companies are making at this time.

My assumption is that insurance companies will be very cautious with their offers till the new law is sorted out.