Subject: Rules Are Set for Granting Benefits on AIDS Virus
Date: Published: 6/30/93 (27 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    Technology:
    Rules Are Set for Granting
    Benefits on AIDS Virus

    WASHINGTON -- The Social Security Administration announced rules
 designed to speed up the granting of disability benefits to people
 infected with the virus that causes AIDS.  
    The rules are updates of interim regulations issued by the Bush
 administration in December 1991.  They were drafted before that
 administration left office, but were held until Clinton officials
 could review them.
    As with the interim regulations, the new rules list AIDS-related
 ailments that automatically qualify a person for disability
 payments.  The list includes several gynecological conditions and
 serious infections such as tuberculosis.
    The rules also add a new category that qualifies people who have
 "functional limitations" from the human immunodeficiency virus that
 restrict their routine activities of daily living or work.

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