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On July 28, 2008 the President and Congress passed the mortgage relief bill. It has two different parts of the bill that aim to keep people from losing their homes, and to keep money available for people to purchase new homes. Some 400,000 home owners are stuck in high interest loans tied to homes that [...]

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
Congress put through a law that increased physician pay by 10.6% along with increases to pay for wheelchairs and other items needed by the disabled community. This bill also increases bonuses paid to doctors and nurses that move to rural areas. Both houses of congress passed the bill by large [...]

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
Direct Marketing Services has recently disclosed that it lost over 51,000 credit cards along with customer information that went with the cards. The data included name, address and the 3 digit code on the back of the credit card. This company may not ring a bell, but several of it’s [...]

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents fired an employee when they found pornography on his laptop. The worker was called into his boss’ office and told that he was being fired and that the case was being forwarded to the district attorney because child pornography was found. No one at [...]

The Department of Justice has just released a set of booklets and videos on how law enforcement is to work with the disabled. There have been many stories of law enforcement using too much force against the disabled because we usually cannot follow the commands of the officers. As a tetraplegic, I could not get [...]

 
By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
NWSource.com reports that the non-profit group Pain Relief Network is suing the state of Washington because of their prescriptive practices. We reported on this problem several months ago where the state of Washington was putting a limit on the amount of pain killers that could be prescribed to anyone in [...]

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
T-5 incomplete injury
MyFloridaLegal.com reports that a Okaloosa caregiver was arrested on charges of abusing a disabled person that was in his care. Carl Maycock, a caregiver employed at the Fort Walden Development Center became enraged when the man he was taking care of soiled himself in his wheelchair. Maycock wheeled [...]

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
Two years ago two blind men sued the Treasury Department to make money accessible to the blind. The United States is one of a handful of countries left that do nothing to help the blind determine what money they are carrying. The Euro has special embossing on it in braille [...]

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
T-5 incomplete injury
States all over the country are making dramatic changes to Vocational Rehab, making it all but impossible for newly disabled people to get help. If you have already signed up with Voc Rehab in the past, be prepared to get a scary looking letter talking in mumbo -jumbo [...]

(Author’s note: I apologize for the delay in writings in this column. Nasty cold and food poisoning weren’t much fun!) Thanks to Doug. G. of Joni and Friends-South Florida for bringing this to our attention. There was a story in the Miami Herald about four local groups coming together to protest the [...]