Disability Issues

A report finds that 1.6 million fewer people received Medicaid and CHIP in 2018, primarily due to paperwork hurdles confronted during the re-eligibility process.

Only a small fraction of those eligible for new savings accounts for people with disabilities are using them, according to disability advocates. ...

A new law expands the federal government's responsibilities to accommodate people with disabilities in natural disaster and emergency preparedness planning. ...

A new study suggests that many physicians are woefully uneducated about their legal obligations to accommodate people with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Dental care rarely gets attention as a disability rights issue, but numerous people with disabilities suffer from inadequate and inaccessible dental care.  There are signs this may be changing.

Some workers with disabilities have been performing the same routine tasks for years while earning less than $1 an hour -- and the practice is entirely legal.  New legislation would change that.

A special needs trust has been likened to a "parent's pocket" -- that is, it pays for the kinds of things that a parent would just reach into his or her pocket to cover.

The New York Times Magazine’s weekly The Ethicist column recently explored a difficult question that may challenge many parents of adult children with special needs.

Eliminating a cruel quirk in federal bankruptcy law, newly enacted legislation protects veterans disability benefits from creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.