Social Security Administration, Worker End Disability Bias Suit

The Social Security Administration will pay $166,000 to end an employee’s lawsuit claiming the agency failed to provide her reasonable accommodations for her mental illness.

The agency will also credit Laurie Tate more than 425 hours of sick and annual leave that was charged between January and July 2020, according to the settlement agreement filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Tate started working at the agency’s Chicago office in 2016 and was granted an accommodation to telework three days a week for her bipolar disorder. She alleged that in January 2020 the agency ...