Disability Facts

Most workers are eligible for workers’ compensation coverage, but every state excludes some workers. Exclusions often include:

• Business owners
• Independent contractors
• Casual workers
• Domestic employees in private homes
• Farm workers
• Maritime workers
• Railroad employees
• Unpaid volunteers

Check the workers’ compensation law of your state to see whether these exclusions affect you.

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Disability compensation benefits are payments from public or private funds to a disabled person who cannot work, such as social security or workers’ compensation benefits.

Basically there are two types of disability compensation benefits to which a person can be eligible. The two types are Disability Insurance Benefits and Supplemental Security Income Benefits.

An employee may be eligible for temporary partial disability when he or she is able to do some work but is still recuperating from the effects of the injury, and is, thus, temporarily limited in the amount or type of work which can be performed compared to the pre-injury work.

State Disability Insurance (SDI) defines disability insurance fraud as any claim for SDI benefits where a person, alone or in collusion with any other person, willfully makes a false statement or misrepresentation, or withholds a material fact for the purpose of collecting SDI benefits. For example, filing a claim with SDI for an injury or illness that does not exist or helping another person file a false claim is insurance fraud.

An individual who commits disability insurance fraud against the SDI program may be disqualified from receiving further benefits for the current claim and future claim(s), and may be liable to repay a 30 percent penalty in addition to the overpayment amount. Any person who falsely certifies to his/her medical condition or to the medical condition of any other person is subject to an additional 25 percent penalty on any overpayment made due to the false medical. If criminally prosecuted, the individual may face additional penalties.

Are you currently seeking legal information regarding Maine disability laws or Maine social security laws? If so, contact one of our experienced Maine disability attorneys or Maine social security attorneys today!

	Did You Know?
	EPSDT stands for Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Program A program mandated by law as part of the Medicaid program. The law requires that all states have in effect a program for eligible children under age 21 to ascretain their physical or mental defects and to provide such health care treatments and other measures to correct or ameliorate defects and chronic conditions discovered. The state programs also have active outreach components to inform eligible persons of the benefits available to them, to provide screening, and if necessary, to assist in obtaining appropriate treatment.