WorriedInVa05
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Virginia
I am trying to find resources for a friend who recently had to have back surgery. It has kept her from working her minimum wage paying job.
Just last year (in December??) her husband was granted long-term disability payments from his former employer. He has a disease that prevents him from working at all. His wife was under his health insurance, so she did not sign up for the health issurance offered through her employer. Unfortunately, since she did not sign up for health insurance through her employer...now that she had back surgery and is out of work, she cannot get any disability. She cannot get workers comp because she was not laid off or her situation does not qualify. Although her family receives disability payments from her husband, social security checks for her 3 children, she is really in a bind. She is on section 8 housing. She is not well off. What kind of resources can I help her find? Can she find any other source of income? She is receiving cut-off notices for her electricity, utilities. I don't know what to tell her....where can I start?! Should she get a lawyer? Can she afford one?
I am trying to find resources for a friend who recently had to have back surgery. It has kept her from working her minimum wage paying job.
Just last year (in December??) her husband was granted long-term disability payments from his former employer. He has a disease that prevents him from working at all. His wife was under his health insurance, so she did not sign up for the health issurance offered through her employer. Unfortunately, since she did not sign up for health insurance through her employer...now that she had back surgery and is out of work, she cannot get any disability. She cannot get workers comp because she was not laid off or her situation does not qualify. Although her family receives disability payments from her husband, social security checks for her 3 children, she is really in a bind. She is on section 8 housing. She is not well off. What kind of resources can I help her find? Can she find any other source of income? She is receiving cut-off notices for her electricity, utilities. I don't know what to tell her....where can I start?! Should she get a lawyer? Can she afford one?