I've been on workmens comp since the beginning of 1995 though I was able to work part of the time. During a time that I was working full time they still covered medications and dr. visits etc but because of the type of medications I have to be on to semi function I was let go from the place of business I'd been at for over thirty years. Prior to my discharge my husband and I had retained a bankruptcy lawyer. When we went in to actually file everything she found out that I was now on only workmens comp(at the 1994 rate no less) she said that it wouldn't do any good to file because they would expect that we would sometime settle with workmens comp and they would just take whatever the settlement was to pay off our creditors even if it was ten years from now. That money is to help with the medical bills,medications,wages,and any other treatments I may need that they are now refusing to pay. Can they really take this money just because I will be getting it in lump pay rather than on a weekly basis as I am now? We're drowning now and need some help fast especially since the lawyer has taken so long to tell us this!soconfusedrewcandbr