The Social Security Administration is launching a yearslong effort to simplify and move online the application for Supplemental Security Income, a means-tested program for people with disabilities and ...

To receive cash benefits from the Social Security Disability Insurance program and health benefits from Medicare, federal rules require that a worker must have a significant disability that prevents ...

Rutherford is the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the author of Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World, forthcoming from Duke University Press About a ...

Tabi Haly defies expectations. She's a woman with a progressive muscular illness; she can't move her body and she needs round-the-clock care from aides. She wasn't expected to go to college, or to get ...

The government program called Supplemental Security Income has lots of outdated rules that harm the people it's supposed to help, like people with significant disabilities and their caregivers. Every ...

Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ...

Social security payments, including Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and benefits for retirement, disability and survivors, ...

Nationwide, more than 100,000 people have been removed from SSI in the past year, according to data from the Social Security Administration (SSA). The number of people claiming Supplemental Security ...

The initial rollout will be available to adults who have never married and are applying for Supplemental Security Income for the first time. The Social Security Administration is launching a yearslong ...