Public Benefits

If you’re currently receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), you may want to protect your income by setting up a special needs trust. Receiving financial gifts could jeopardize other related benefits.

Parents giving gifts to children will sometimes provide nothing to the child with special needs while giving substantial amounts to the child’s siblings. This planning strategy can lead to trouble, as a recent Wisconsin case highlights.

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) both allow working beneficiaries to deduct certain work-related expenses from their countable income, making it easier to qualify for benefits or, in the case of SSI, to receive a larger...

A recent Massachusetts case illustrates why trustees of special needs trusts have to be very careful before making distributions for people receiving public benefits.

You may not realize that owning an RV could impact your government benefits, especially Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid.

Many people with special needs choose to live in group homes or supportive housing with other people with special needs.

In one of its first acts of the new Congress, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives changed its rules to prevent lawmakers from shifting money from the Social Security retirement trust fund to the Social Security disability trust fund unless the...

A law passed in 2014 allows people with disabilities who became disabled before they turned 26 to set aside up to $18,000 a year (as of 2024) in tax-free savings accounts without affecting their eligibility for government benefits.  ...

After two years of almost complete inaction, the current U.S. Congress is considering several bills benefiting people with special needs.