Special Needs News

In the latest sign of the pandemic’s ongoing and disproportionate impact on low-income people with disabilities, the number of new Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients hit its lowest [...]

Retirement plans often make up a significant portion of the assets of parents of children with special needs, or of individuals who have become disabled as adults.  In such cases, the question [...]

How do cities stack up for people with disabilities seeking the best place to live? To help answer this and more questions, the consumer finance website WalletHub has issued its latest annual [...]

In its first three weeks in office, President Biden’s administration reversed a range of high-profile Trump Administration regulations that affected people with disabilities. 

Thanks to legislation enacted at the end of the Trump Administration, people with a

Despite passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act more than 30 years ago, traveling with children with special needs can still pose challenges. Fortunately, there are resources available [...]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that the federal government is failing to adequately monitor managed care programs that deliver Medicaid long-term care [...]

Not every potential trustee provides the best services for trusts designed for children with special needs. Here are some questions to ask while searching for the right professional trustee [...]

As many as eight million eligible citizens may not have received their second Covid relief checks, primarily because their income is so low that they have not been required to file tax returns.

The $900 billion Covid-19 pandemic relief package, signed into law by President Trump on December 27, 2020, contains almost no funding for programs specific to people with disabilities.