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Too sick to work, many face delays for help from disability judges. Some die waiting.

Fred Kelly - Charlotte Observer

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August 26, 2007 02:43 PM

Nearly all American workers pay the federal government for insurance in case they get too sick to keep a job. But thousands of disabled workers wait longer for help in the Charlotte region than almost anywhere else in the nation.

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