With the cost of helping Los Angeles County's welfare recipients expected to hit $1 billion by the end of this fiscal year, county officials are pushing a plan to shift the burden of some of the most hard-core unemployed to the federal government. If they succeed, local taxpayers could save tens of millions of dollars, and thousands of disabled welfare recipients would see their aid more than triple.
But the hurdles could prove high. County officials propose spending $7.2 million to help applicants through a notoriously difficult process to qualify for federal disability assistance. ...
A county-commissioned study released this summer found that a third of general relief recipients surveyed had a disability that would qualify them for federal aid. ...
To help those people apply for federal aid, county officials propose spending $7.2 million on caseworkers, housing subsidies and medical evaluations and research.
Sep 25, 2009
LA May Help Disability Claimants
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It's my opinion,ssa has little understanding about people with disabilities who are unemployed. Generally,it's my belief,ssa makes a distinction between the two when there may not be one.
Many counties in CA have routinely referred GA recipients to file SSA DIB or concurrent TII/TXVI claims for many years. Odd that LA County never thought it necessary, because a good percentage of those claims are allowed. GA comes out of County revenues, so it has a big impact on local govt. spending.
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