"Disability Benefits and AIDS"

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"Disability Benefits and AIDS"

Washington Post (12/19/91), P. A20

Abstract: The Social Security Administration's recent change in policy for disability payments to AIDS patients may not be completely satisfactory, but anything to speed up the usual bureaucratic process and provide patients with financial and medical assistance is good, write the editors of the Washington Post. The policy will now include more people infected with HIV who don't have full-blown AIDS. Previously, those with AIDS have been assisted quickly, but those who were only HIV-positive did not get the same treatment. Also, the medical criteria for making benefits available for those who had the virus, but not the disease, were not clear, especially among infected women and children. Now, the rules have been expanded to include symptoms that occur earlier in the course of AIDS, in addition to medical conditions specific to women and children. Some say the new regulations, which have yet to be finalized, do not go far enough. However, at this point, the government's new policy is still better than the previous one, conclude the editors.

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