Can I Receive Worker's Compensation and Social Security Disability?Written by SS Home
Yes, though your Social Security Disability benefits or worker’s compensation benefits will likely be reduced. Typically, disability payments other than Social Security disability benefits will not affect your benefits. However, there are two notable exceptions to this rule. If you receive worker’s compensation or another public disability payment, worker’s compensation or Social Security benefits you and your family members receive could be reduced, depending on your home state. In some states your Social Security Disability benefits will be reduced and in other states you will receive a full Social Security Disability benefit but your Worker’s Compensation benefit will be decreased. Either way, there are usually some extra benefits available through Social Security even if you are on Worker’s Compensation. Regardless of which benefit your state cuts, reduction ensures that combined amount of Social Security benefit you and your family receive plus your workers' compensation payment and/or public disability payment does not exceed 80 percent of your average current earnings. Though it might seem odd that Social Security is keeping money from disabled persons, reason Social Security caps benefit payments is to curtail fraudulent claims. With caps in place you cannot make more money than you did before by simply being disabled, which leaves little incentive to submit false claims.
| | Are Showers Harmful to Your Health?Written by Ed Bishop
The last thing you would think about when you are taking a nice, refreshing shower is, "Am I jeopardizing my health"?Chlorine is used by many municipalities to disinfect their water supply. Unfortunalely, according to many health experts, chlorine has been linked to breast, bladder and colon cancer. When I first read about this, my first thought was, "I don't drink water in shower, so what is there to worry about"? What I didin't know was, our skin can absorb 7 - 10 times more chlorine than from drinking water that contains chlorine. When showering, chlorine can vaporize and form chloroform gas, which is inhaled, affecting those with respiratory problems such as asthma and bronchitus.
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