Does the government have a temporary disability program?

Question

After I graduated from college, I worked sixteen hours a day 6 to 7 days a week writing and photographing every day for ten years plus working out one hour a day. A year ago, I started getting awful pains everywhere. I got lots of tests and it turns out I have ulnar nerve and medial nerve damage in both arms four ruptured disks in my back and numb legs and feet. Now anything I do hurts really badly. I want to completely rest for six months or so because I can barely work at all. (I probably shouldn't even be typing this), but technically there is no specific disease I have. Can I apply for gov't disibility based on those problems with a chance of getting approved?

Answer 1

Temporary disability insurance, sometimes referred to as cash
sickness benefits, provides workers with partial compensation for
loss of wages caused by temporary nonoccupational disability. Only
five States, Puerto Rico, and the railroad industry have temporary
disability insurance laws.
It was during the severe depression of the thirties that the
United States began its national social insurance programs of
unemployment insurance and old-age insurance. Consequently,
providing protection against costs of sickness that are more or less
recurring regardless of economic conditions did not seem to have
the same urgency as providing protection against cyclical unemployment
and old-age dependency. The Federal law provided no
basis for a system of compensation for wage loss due to short-term
sickness or disability that was comparable to the Federal-State
system of unemployment insurance.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

my son has been off work for almost 5 months with a broken leg and no income. can he get temp. disability