Public Benefits

One of the programs on the cutting edge of community mental health is called "supportive housing," and it incorporates not only housing but social services and medical care as well.

In an apparent violation of federal law, states are increasingly using nursing homes to house young and middle-age people with mental illnesses.

While there are a number of groups and resources for the parents of children with special needs, did you know that there is also an organization devoted to the siblings of these children?...

If you or a loved one has a visual impairment and receives some form of Social Security benefit (which includes SSDI and SSI), or if you have a visual impairment and serve as a representative payee for someone who receives...

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

More than ten years after the measure was first proposed, Congress finally passed a law requiring that insurance companies provide enrollees suffering from mental illness with coverage equal to the coverage they would receive for any other type of condition.

Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's promise that families of children with special needs would "have a friend and advocate in the White House" has raised questions about how much of an advocate she or her running mate would actually be.

In a recent report the Social Security Administration's Inspector General concludes that banks are illegally garnishing accounts that receive electronic deposits of Social Security benefits.

An overlooked portion of recent Medicare legislation promises Medicare recipients greater access to mental health benefits.