SSI is a substantial program. It costs the federal government over $50 billion dollars a year to cover nearly 7 million adults and 1.3 million children. To put this in perspective, the federal ...

Approximately 6.2 million veterans in the U.S. receive disability benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The Social Security Administration provides financial support to families with children who have disabilities through the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. The key to accessing these ...

About a million of America’s most vulnerable children receive money through SSI and, in many states, receiving SSI qualifies them for health insurance under Medicaid. One report estimated that ...

More than 16 million adults and children currently receive disability benefits, but the Social Security Administration isn't saying how many people the new rules would affect. The agency has said ...

A Florida federal judge reversed the Commissioner of Social Security's decision denying a man his request for child insurance benefits and claims he could not work due to mental health issues ...

Family members who may be eligible to receive a monthly benefit of up to 50% of a disabled worker's benefit include a spouse, divorced spouse, children, and/or an adult child disabled before age 22.

A longstanding practice of using a child’s federal survivor and disability benefits to defray the cost of foster care is under scrutiny in Congress and statehouses. James Wood was 14 when his ...

"What they have done is for some children, they haven’t applied for disability benefits at all. And for other children, they applied and kept all that money," said Anna Blondell, a staff ...

The number of parents claiming disability benefits for children has surged by 200,000 since lockdown, new government figures show. Some 714,000 children are forecast to be in receipt of disability ...

In recent years, DCF withheld about $5.5 million annually, or roughly 90 percent of the survivor and disability benefits intended for foster children who lost a parent or have a disability ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Nearly one in three Darlington children who claim disability benefits are losing ‘vital’ payments after their 16th birthday, it has been ...