Information about the class representatives and how to obtain unemployment benefits that are due disabled workers because of Wisconsin’s illegal SSDI eligibility ban is now available.
Besides this guidance, make sure to review the Department’s well done information about how to obtain the unemployment benefits that are due you.
Recent press coverage of the case is available.
- Democrats’ bill would repeal ban on jobless pay for SSDI recipients
- Judge orders back payments to disabled Wisconsinites denied unemployment benefits
- Wisconsin ends unemployment aid ban for workers with disabilities. Now they want compensation for past denials.
- Wisconsin ordered to pay disabled workers who were denied unemployment benefits
- Wisconsin to compensate workers with disabilities for wrongfully denied unemployment claims
- Wisconsin law overturned; disabled workers to get unemployment
And, unfortunately, there has been a recent push to create a 50% SSDI offset to replace the now eliminated SSDI eligibility ban.
- Draft bill would reduce Wisconsin unemployment aid for workers with disabilities
- Previously canceled penalty for disabled workers returns
- DWD kills proposal to subtract disability payments from unemployment compensation
As this press coverage indicates, it remains to be seen what will happen with this new kind of discrimination contained in this 50% offset proposal.