Public Benefits

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a federal insurance program that provides a cash benefit and eventual Medicare eligibility to people who can no longer work. How long do you need to work to qualify? ...

A recently unveiled whistleblower lawsuit alleges that a prominent Kentucky disability lawyer illegally colluded with a federal disability judge to approve his clients' cases and reap the millions in attorney's fees that came with them.

People with disabilities and senior citizens will receive a 1.5 percent increase in their Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits in 2014, an even smaller cost of living adjustment than last year's 1.7 percent.

After only 100 days of deliberations, the National Commission on Long-Term Care has released its recommendations for improving long-term care for people with disabilities and seniors but failed to include virtually any comprehensive suggestions for revising the nation's long-term care...

In striking down a key part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Supreme Court has made it easier for same-sex married couples to access certain types of disability benefits. However, the ruling is not all good...

Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) introduced the Special Needs Trust Fairness Act of 2013, a bill that would allow people with disabilities to create first-party special needs trusts to hold their assets without interfering with their access to Supplemental Security Income...

In a recent New York case, an institutional trustee has been ordered to pay back a special needs trust almost $180,000 for its failure to make certain that the beneficiary qualified for available public benefits.

A bill that would allow retired military service members to name special needs trusts as beneficiaries of their Survivor Benefit Plans has been reintroduced in Congress.

If you are taking on the responsibility of serving as the trustee of a special needs trust you will need a "go-to" reference guide that you can refer to. For most trustees, the 2020 edition of Managing a Special Needs Trust:...