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Explain disability and medicare benefits.

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What does the Alien Tort Claims Act provide?



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Answer to Question 1

Disability Benefits
The government makes monthly cash benefits, called disability insurance benefits, to disabled people under the age of sixty-five and their families. A disabled person is someone unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity because of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment expected to end in death or that has lasted or will last continually for twelve months.

Medicare Benefits Medicare is insurance designed to help pay a large portion of personal health-care costs. Virtually everyone age sixty-five and over may be covered by this contributory hospital and medical insurance plan. The program covers only specified services.

Answer to Question 2

The Alien Tort Claims Act states, The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.



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