disability check

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disability check - a monthly payment made to someone who has become disabled and is unable to work

disability payment

regular payment - a payment made at regular times

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He was removed from Roth's care after police began suspecting she was fabricating her son's condition in order to receive a monthly disability check from the state.

Mother Faked Child's Illness To Collect Disability Checks

HOUSTON - A $733 federal disability check doesn't stretch far each month when you have more than a dozen children to feed and clothe.

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Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem, a Saudi with hand paralysis, said his monthly disability check of SR1,000 was not enough to cover basic costs.

Disabled complain of financial hardship

The amount of your monthly disability check is based on your average lifetime earnings.

Social security disability benefits

So he'd stored his bags in a buddy's apartment until his disability check arrived.

When I saw you hungry: why do we give to the least of these?

The financial future of many living on a pension, fixed income, Social Security or--in Manthe's case--a monthly disability check has never seemed so precarious.

Seniors shortchanged by recession: Catholic social services lend hand to financially hard-hit elderly

AIG, the insurer for Taha's American employer in Iraq, Titan Corp., paid Taha's medical care expenses and his disability check. Taha had a workers' compensation claim under the provisions of the Defense Base Act (DBA).

A brutal interpretation

She had been using check cashers for 30 years and paying almost $200 a month to cash her social security check and her grandson's disability check., and to pay all of their bills with money orders.

Bank on San Francisco: welcoming all citizens into the financial mainstream: cities are well-positioned to play a catalytic role in working work with banks, community groups, and other stakeholders to build an inclusive financial system. Bank on San Francisco is one attempt to address a serious, yet solvable, social problem

He has experienced life beyond fictitious, ultrawhite Burnfield ("pizza and puke capital of the world"), dropped out of the Air Force with a monthly disability check for a humiliating minor injury and returned to take up his position by the Dumpster at the local 7-Eleven, stewing in alcoholic bile.

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His monthly Social Security disability check is $694, and he is dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.