Disability Issues

The IRS reports that more than 5 million retirees, people with disabilities and disabled veterans who are eligible to receive a tax rebate under the $152 billion economic stimulus package have failed to take the steps necessary to get their...

Autism and families with special needs children were a surprisingly prominent focus of the final debate between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is arguably the most important federal law for children with special needs.  Here are the law's major provisions that every parent should know about. ...

In a case involving a Floridian teen who was catastrophically injured and received a settlement, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state Medicaid programs may be repaid from settlement funds reserved for future medical expenses. ...

During the pandemic, the U.S. Department of Justice has entered settlement agreements with a variety of businesses after these businesses were found to have failed in ensuring their websites and online vaccination portals were fully digitally accessible to individuals with...

Disability justice activist Stacey Park Milbern, a national leader in making the disability rights movement more inclusive of people of color and non-traditional gender identities, died May 19 of complications from surgery.  It was her 33rd birthday.

President-elect Joe Biden has made more promises to the disability community than perhaps any incoming president in U.S. history, raising the hopes of advocates. ...

As we move closer to the approval of one or more COVID-19 vaccines, questions continue about whether the vaccines will be allocated in a way that does not discriminate against people with disabilities.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments November 10 in a case weighing the elimination of the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), with potentially dire implications for the civil rights of people with disabilities.