Social Security Judge Awards Benefits for Mold-Related Disability

TUCSON, Ariz. - A Social Security Administration judge has granted a claimant's request for disability benefits for mold-related injuries, accepting medical testimony linking physical and cognitive impairments to mold exposure. In the Case of Kristina M. Townsend, No. Unavailable (SSA Off. of Disability Adj. and Rev.).

Administrative Law Judge Milan M. Dostal said in a written ruling dated Oct. 7 that Kristina Marie Townsend has moderate impairments that make it impossible to work and is entitled to benefits dating to her exposure to mold at a temporary work residence in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2007.

Townsend maintains that she …