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SOURCE: www.ins.state.ny.us Jane Griffin, whose long-term disability benefits were cut off when an insurer refused to consider new information about her physical condition, learned that it is possible to challenge an insurance company and win. Griffin saw her monthly disability [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.dol.gov COFFEEN, Ill. — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited U.S. Minerals LLC with willfully exposing its workers to dangerously high levels of hazardous dust, and not providing adequate breathing protection and training [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.dol.gov WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy today announced a series of new products through the Campaign for Disability Employment that are designed to promote the hiring, retention and advancement of people with [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.dol.gov Resource made available by US Labor Department WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, today made available the 2011 Workforce Recruitment Program for College Students [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.defense.gov The 2009 War Supplemental Appropriations Act established Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay (RSLSP), providing $500 for each month/partial month served in stop loss status. Service members, veterans, and beneficiaries of servicemembers whose service was involuntarily extended under Stop [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.akaka.senate.gov Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Statement of Senator Daniel K. Akaka Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing to discuss options for getting [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.akaka.senate.gov U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii), a member of the Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement today: “The Pentagon report shows that a large majority of our troops support the repeal of this policy, and that our [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ins.state.ny.us The New York State Insurance Department has begun implementing recommendations from a modernization effort that will cut unnecessary red tape and simplify approval processes, Superintendent James J. Wrynn announced today. The result will allow the Department to focus [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ins.state.ny.us Open Enrollment for Senior Citizens Underway Through Dec. 31 If you’re a senior citizen who relies on Medicare, the New York State Insurance Department says that you should be aware of changes for 2011 which may affect your [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.whitehouse.gov Because of the irresponsibility of the past decade, the President inherited a $1.3 trillion projected deficit upon taking office and an economic crisis that threatened to put the nation into a second Great Depression. He moved quickly to [...] Read More