Daily News | People with long COVID shouldn’t have to fight for disability benefits
, and may never fully recover. And we are not doing nearly enough to help them.
This doesn’t surprise me, because getting disability benefits is always hard, even for more established causesagrees that long COVID can be a disability “Social Security is not really prepared to handle these types of symptoms resulting from this novel infection,” Nick Feden, an attorney in the Supplemental Security Income Unit at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, told me. He said he hasn’t heard of anyone who got disability benefits simply because of long COVID, but he’s seen clients who have qualified for benefits after showing that their long COVID has exacerbated existing impairments.
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