Once an Application for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is filed, there is a ______ waiting period before benefits begin.
Five month
A ____ is a denial of employer liability issued by the workers' compensation insurance carrier.
notice of contest
An individual with a disability described as preluding heavy work as lost ___of the capacity to push, pull, bend, stoop, and climb.
50 percent
Before an injured employee can return to work, a physician must write
A doctor's final report
_____ provides Workers' Compensation Insurance coverage to employees of the federal government.
Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA)
The classifications of pain used in workers' compensation claims are
minimum, slight, moderate, severe
A disability that limits a worker to jobs that are performed in an upright or standing position and that require no greater than minimum effort are classified as
limitation of light work
Vocational Rehabilitation programs provide _____ for individuals with job-related disabilities.
training in a different job
For a widow or widower age fifty years or older who is disabled to qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), his or her spouse must have paid into Social Security for at least
ten years
An employee who believes the work environment to be dangerous may file a complaint with the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration