YONKERS − New York’s Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Program, known as CDPAP, allows people with disabilities to find, hire and if needed, fire personal assistants. People living with often ...

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a vital anti-poverty program for disabled people, and Congress has the monumental opportunity to raise benefits and fix harmful archaic rules. Mia Ives-Rublee, ...

This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. When 22-year-old Ethan Kretlow graduated from high school two years ago, his mother, Lisa Votapek, was worried. Kretlow has ...

The woman who, until recently, led the federal government effort to get the nation's disabled into the workforce is lashing out at the Bush administration, saying it is quietly attempting to ...

UC Berkeley data shows over 40% of disability accommodations go to students with psychological conditions, as accommodations, ...

A Middle Eastern student who was disabled after being tortured in Iraq is suing Central Michigan University for ...

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Northeast Texas Regional Mobility Authority, which oversees Toll 49, is urging disabled veterans to take advantage of a discount program. All veterans with special “disabled veteran” license plates ...

The village of Lincolnwood has made a community call for student volunteers to participate in the year-round Rescue Rangers program, which provides assistance to senior and disabled residents. “It’s a ...

Many older, blind and disabled Americans receive benefits from the Supplemental Security Income program. But it has been essentially unchanged since 1972, and its rules mean that many recipients must ...

CDPAP is used by people with disabilities on Medicaid. Family and friends can also be enlisted as paid personal care assistants. Critics eye that with skepticism but participants say it's key to their ...