There are many disability compensation benefits available for disabled or injured workers such as:

1. Worker’s Disability Benefits

Workers who sustained job-related injuries are eligible to receive medical benefits that will cover hospital stay, doctor’s fee, and costs of medicines and therapies.

According to lawyers, medical benefits also cover transportation allowance for hospital visits and appointments.

Meanwhile, injured workers can also receive temporary disability benefits that will cover loss of wages. Usually this monetary assistance is two-thirds of a worker’s weekly income.

When an industrial injury will prevent a person from going back to his work, he may be eligible to receive permanent disability benefits. According to lawyers, the amount of this monetary assistance will depend on the worker’s age, occupation, and the severity of his condition.

On the other hand, if a job-related accident has killed a worker, his surviving relatives are eligible to receive assistance to cover hospital costs, funeral expenses, and other monetary compensation.

2. California State Disability Insurance (SDI)

Every payday, a small amount is deducted in workers’ wage that will go to their SDI funds that can be used when they become disabled. According to lawyers, SDI beneficiaries are usually those who are not covered or receiving worker’s compensation benefits.

Meanwhile, SDI only provides short-term benefits to workers to compensate for their loss of wages.

3. Social Security Disability Benefits

Beneficiaries of Social Security Disability claims should be suffering from a long-term and severe disability that prevents them from working; have worked at least 10 years in the US; and have contributed enough funds.

According to the Social Security Administration (SSA), this federal assistance is usually paid on the sixth month after the disability began.

In addition to this, some family members are also eligible to receive this benefit. Qualified family members are spouse age 62 years and older, spouse (regardless of his/her age) who is caring for the beneficiary’s child age 16 and younger, unmarried child age 18 and younger, and unmarried child age 18 years and older and with disability that starts before age 22.

4. Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

Because this benefit is supported by general tax revenues, a disabled person can receive this federal assistance even if he did not contribute Social Security taxes or did not work.

By proving that a person has a severe disability and impairment that prevents him from working and that he has a limited income, he may be eligible for SSI.

According to SSA, this monetary benefit is given to poor people so they can afford basic needs such as clothes, food, medicine, and shelter that will allow them to have a decent living.