Web website and educational action provides assets to the 50 actor Americans with disabilities for aborigine registration, acclamation and acclamation details, and voting support.
Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 23, 2008 -- Allsup, the nation's arch Social Security affliction representation company, is abutting with the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the country's better cross-disability associates organization, in the AAPD's "Activate the Power of the Disability Vote" aborigine allotment attack to advice action the desperate abatement in aborigine allotment a allotment of individuals with disabilities.
Activate the Power of the Disability Vote Voters will accept the befalling this November to vote for a admiral and associates of Congress who can accomplish a absolute aberration for the 50 actor Americans with disabilities - if they appearance up This campaign, alternating with AAPD's beyond Disability Vote Project initiative, is analytical to brainwash Americans with disabilities on how best to get out, vote and accomplish a difference. Specific locations are seeing a greater assembly of voters, and added locations are now physically accessible It's important that citizens crop advantage of the opportunities, and if they acquisition limitations--express their admiration for accessibility. Each footfall we accomplish advances the broader needs of our community, which includes humans with disabilities, their families and their affliction partners. Activate the Power of the Disability Vote This is a analytical acclamation for individuals with disabilities The SSDI arrangement is beginning at the seams, with three-quarters of a actor Americans experiencing delays of months--or even years--in accepting their applicable benefits. Voters should carefully appraise the statements of the candidates to actuate who they anticipate will best abode this astronomic problem. Activate the Power of the Disability Vote "Voters will accept the befalling this November to vote for a admiral and associates of Congress who can accomplish a absolute aberration for the 50 actor Americans with disabilities - if they appearance up," said Andrew J. Imparato, AAPD's admiral and CEO. "This campaign, alternating with AAPD's beyond Disability Vote Project initiative, is analytical to brainwash Americans with disabilities on how best to get out, vote and accomplish a difference."
Nearly 70 percent of the nation's polling places now accept accessible voting machines. "Specific locations are seeing a greater assembly of voters, and added locations are now physically accessible," Mr. Imparato said. "It's important that citizens crop advantage of the opportunities, and if they acquisition limitations--express their admiration for accessibility. Each footfall we accomplish advances the broader needs of our community, which includes humans with disabilities, their families and their affliction partners."
The online attack and "Activate the Power of the Disability Vote" assets accent the accent of registering to vote for 50 actor Americans with disabilities. Voters will acquisition state-by-state acceptance to aborigine registration, voting by absentee acclamation and added assets for accepting to the acclamation at www.Allsup.com.
The amount of Americans with disabilities is growing rapidly, in ample allotment because of the crumbling baby boomers. At the aforementioned time, a accountable federal account and a beachcomber of retirements are abrasion the ranks of Social Security Administration workers who analysis affliction claims. Faced with crumbling assets and a disabled citizenry that has added than angled back 1990, the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) arrangement can't accumulate up.
"This is a analytical acclamation for individuals with disabilities," said Jim Allsup, founder, admiral and CEO of Allsup. "The SSDI arrangement is beginning at the seams, with three-quarters of a actor Americans experiencing delays of months--or even years--in accepting their applicable benefits. Voters should carefully appraise the statements of the candidates to actuate who they anticipate will best abode this astronomic problem."
"Activate the Power of the Disability Vote" is a civic educational accomplishment and non-partisan. Allsup and AAPD absolute humans with disabilities to acquisition out added about both presidential campaigns through official attack statements and materials, which can be begin online provided by both the McCain-Palin campaign and Obama-Biden campaign.
AAPD and Allsup afresh beatific joint accessible letters to both presidential candidates advancement them to accession this affair and put on the almanac what they plan to do to abode this astronomic challenge.
In the 2004 elections, the AAPD's Disability Vote Project affairs saw a 19 percent access in the voting assembly of humans with disabilities nationwide. In 2008, the Disability Vote Project and Allsup accept set a ambition to access the allotment amount of voters with disabilities and animate stronger aborigine turnout.
AAPD and Allsup advocate eliminating barriers that anticipate humans from voting, connected advance in altitude for absolutely accessible voting and efforts to ensure voting machines are accurate and secure.
AAPD's mission is to adapt the affliction association to be a able force for change--socially politically and economically. Toward that end, AAPD is committed to educating policymakers, businesses and the accepted accessible about affliction issues, accouterment associates benefits, cultivating arising leaders, announcement mentoring and career exploration, and administering non-partisan aborigine allotment and aborigine mobilization campaigns. AAPD helps to affiliate the assorted association of humans with disabilities, including their family, accompany and supporters, and to be a civic articulation for change in implementing the goals of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): adequation of opportunity, abounding participation, absolute active and bread-and-butter self-sufficiency. For added information, appointment AAPD's Web website at www.aapd.com.
Allsup offers casework that abutment the banking abundance and bloom of individuals with disabilities, including abetment with Social Security affliction and Medicare allowances programs. Allsup's experts accept helped added than 100,000 humans with disabilities civic access $1.5 billion in Social Security and Medicare payments. Allsup pre-qualifies individuals to ensure eligibility, develops an accurate absolute record, and helps attend applicants through the affliction accommodation process, abrogation the Social Security Administration to focus on arising affliction decisions and allowance back-logged claims. For added information, log on to http://www.allsup.com.
Contacts:
AAPD - www.aapd.com
Allsup - www.Allsup.com
Rebecca Ray
(800) 854-1418, ext. 5065
r.ray(at)allsupinc.com
or
Dan Allsup, ext. 5760
djallsup(at)allsupinc.com
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