If you have been approved for an ordinary disability pension, it may affect your workers’ compensation case. This will be true if the conditions listed in your disability pension are the same as in your workers’ comp claim. The overlap of the times for your disability pension and your workers’ comp claim will result in [...]
There are 5 main reasons why your accidental disability pension could have been denied: The board does not perceive your injury to constitute total and permanent disability. The opinions of the board’s doctors would have influenced this view. The board does not perceive your injury to have directly resulted from the specific accident that you [...]
If you wish to apply for a disability pension in New Jersey, you will need several documents to get started. There are two medical reports that must be filled out and must show that you are disabled and can’t perform your job for your employer. An alternative approach to these two reports is to utilize [...]
If you have been hurt at work, you may have heard reference to ordinary disability pensions and accidental disability pensions. If so, you need to know the difference because the type of disability pension for which you apply can have a significant effect on the benefits you receive. An accidental disability pension pays more, as [...]
The Disability Pension appeal process essentially begins when you receive a letter saying you are not disabled and that your application for Disability Pension has been denied. You need to appeal within 45 days, and the first thing you’ll do is send a letter by Certified Mail to the Pension Board. This letter will say [...]
If you are considering applying for your disability pension, you first need to determine whether you are going to apply for an ordinary disability pension or an accidental disability pension. Ask yourself whether your disability resulted while you were working or whether it occurred while your were outside of the workforce. Has it been more [...]
If you have been injured in the course of your employment and you are seeking a disability pension, you should know that this process is completed online. The web address is http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/pensions/mbosregister.shtml . At this website, you well register with a username and password for the MBOS (Member Benefits Online System) to manage your account [...]
Children are to be seen and not heard! How many times have I heard that phrase? It was the environment in which I grew up. To me, what is the point of having children if they’re not to be heard and only to be seen? Have you ever sat and had conversation with an 8 [...]
This past weekend I had the chance to visit with my mother and now deceased aunt in Rhode Island. Amy, the kids, and myself found ourselves having breakfast at the Classic Café and talk about a name being perfect for a restaurant. What makes a café classic? We walked in and were greeted by vintage [...]
On December 4, 2012, Zephyr Oil--a Brooklyn-based gasoline distributor--purchased over 70,000 gallons of gas. Except, incredibly unusually, this was not ordinary gasoline. It was avgas, or a kind of aviation fuel. In contrast with regular gasoline, which is obviously acceptable for use in regular automobiles, avgas contains a substance called "tetraethyl lead." The chemical is [...]
