The intersection of identities is both a source of pride and challenges experienced by many Americans today, and for 61 million people, that includes living with a disability. For those living with a ...

The policy provides disabled people with funds to employ personal assistants to carry out tasks specific to their needs and has been the norm for more than two decades in places such as Scandinavia, ...

Approximately 1 in 4, or 61 million, adults in the United States report a disability, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. If you have a physical or mental ...

A Service Animal is a dog that has been individually trained to work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability. Other animals, whether wild or domestic, do not qualify as ...

SSA Commissioner Martin O’Malley sat down with Nextgov/FCW recently to talk through the agency’s biggest challenges, including how it delivers disability assistance. SSA Workforce Budget Customer ...

The research for the article was funded by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. Edward Mitchell is 34 years old and lives in Jackson, Tennessee, with a spinal cord injury caused by a hit-and-run ...

Last week, ABC News reported that the backlog of Americans waiting to see if they qualify for disability assistance from Social Security has swollen to one million people and that thousands have died ...

Veterans whose monthly disability checks from the Department of Veterans Affairs disqualified them from receiving federal housing subsidies based on income restrictions will become eligible for the ...

The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) has announced that the Colorado Disability Funding Committee (CDFC) ...

Disability Services awards scholarships and provides limited financial assistance to students through the programs listed below. To be eligible, applicants must have documentation of a disability, be ...

Advocate Heather McCain said the income and disability assistance system punishes recipients who are in relationships in many ways. ‘People feel like they have to hide relationships in order to ...

Local disability advocates are calling on Social Development and Poverty Reduction Minister Sheila Malcolmson to scrap BC’s cap on how much people on disability assistance can earn as employment ...