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• Social Security Awarded After 5 Years of Waiting

  Christina Cole | March 31, 2007 8:48 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A sickly Charlotte, North Carolina, woman whose case is just one example of the years long worth of delays within the Social Security disability program, will finally receive her benefits any day now.An administrative law judge recently awarded the woman her monthly social security disability payments, which should typically be approximately $947, nearly five years after she first applied to the...

• Officials Investigating Alleged Nursing Home Abuse

  Christina Cole | March 28, 2007 3:13 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  Police are currently investigating a case of reported nursing home patient abuse. Friday, officers were called to Georgetown Healthcare and Rehab where they met with the director of the home and a representative from the S.C. Department of Social Services. According to the report, a 55-year old patient was allegedly chocked by a nurse's aide.The man said in the report, the attack occurred in...