SSI and SSDI

People suffering from a range of serious disabilities often must wait months or even years for federal disability benefits, even if they are clearly eligible. But thanks to a program called Compassionate Allowances, those suffering from specific conditions can have...

Getting benefits information and Social Security numbers from the Social Security Administration (SSA) will soon be a little more difficult.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) often makes mistakes when calculating Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, and when it does it is very difficult for a beneficiary to challenge the error because the SSA does not have a uniform system for...

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a federal insurance program that provides a cash benefit and eventual Medicare eligibility to people who are unable to work due to serious and ongoing disabilities. Since SSDI is an insurance program and not...

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.

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...

Support is building for new federal legislation, yet to be introduced, that would allow a military retiree to direct his Survivor Benefit Plan payments into a special needs trust for the benefit of his child with special needs, but your...

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.