Verduzco-Gutierrez works primarily with Covid patients, including Ramey and Bryand, through the long Covid clinic she established in 2020. She also spends a lot of her time on disability applications. Of the long Covid patients she has seen, only 2 out of 50 who have applied for SSDI ha...
Long Covid patients in need of assistance may turn to a host of programs for help: Social Security disability insurance, or SSDI; Supplemental Security Income, or SSI; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF; Medicaid; and rental and ...
"There's a set of problems that make this, within the SSDI insurance framework, really tough," said Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine, who said his own long COVID makes him feel like "every nerve ending in my body is in an alka seltzer 24/7." Patient advocates called for better aggregation ...
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For patients and medical providers, a looming question is how long the illness may last. Social Security disability benefits are aimed at long-term conditions. "A lot of people with long Covid want to work, and what they want are work accommodations," said Alice Burns, associate director of...
For example, societal attitudes affected COVID responses to people with disabilities, the potential to be physically harmed while on the street, the inability to receive the daily care they needed, and the ability to participate, socialize, and be a full member of society. Our findings ...