The Social Security Administration is taking online applications for one of its main disability programs after years of trying to simplify and move the process online, an effort the agency’s former ...

Nearly half of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's staff working on developmental disabilities and birth defects was laid off this month, multiple officials tell CBS News, wiping out ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When Christopher McGeever was 22, he aged out of the educational services available to him and needed to enroll in another program for adults with disabilities. There are several ...

After the U.S. House of Representatives passed a plan this week to slash federal spending and raise the nation’s debt ceiling, advocates say access to Medicaid and other disability programs could be ...

Even before the Department of Health and Human Services announced its recent major reorganization, the media had been reporting on anticipated changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover tax, budget and retirement policy from Washington The Trump administration is abolishing the office that manages and ...

Community Resources for Independence (CRI), a nonprofit organization, is hosting the First Annual Fire & Ice Winter Fest to ...

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Adults with disabilities are in limbo across Missouri as they wait to get into day habilitation programs because a lack of requested funding has left their families unable to pay for their care. Day ...

Susan Schaffer's van recently landed in a repair shop, leaving her stranded for 13 days. She was determined to channel her rising frustration into something positive. Schaffer, who has a master's ...

People with disabilities are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime. Federal funding to bring their abusers to justice is dwindling.