many of our clients will ask how am i goingto live while my case progresses? will the company cut me off from my benefits rightnow? how am i going to pay my families bills and my bills during my case? well, once yourjones act case moves into court, there's very many ways that you can get money to pay yourbills. first off, most companies are not going to entirely cut you back from what they'repaying you. in almost all situations, injured
Jones Act Louisiana, seamen are entitled to maintenance while theircase is going forward. if your company's giving your advances, a lot of times if you haveshort term disability or long term disability you can absolutely apply for those. a lotof times you can get those in place and they will actually step in and pay you the sameamount as the advances were that your company
was giving you. there's also the ability toapply for social security disability in a case. we can discuss the details of that withyou if you'd like to call us. there's others ways that you can receive compensation andbenefits during your case. we've represented hundreds of injured maritime workers and they'vebeen able to work through it. they've been able to support themselves and their familiesduring their cases and usually at the end they were very very happy they did so. theyrealize that in the short term, their money may go do a bit, they may have to rely uponother resources to survive to pay their bills but they realize that once they get throughit all that it's worth it. a jones act case is not about the next six months or one yearof your life. a jones act case is about the
next fifteen to twenty to thirty years ofyour life. you have to treat it that way. call us if you have any questions at all,we can discuss how you can survive during your case once it's filed in court.
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