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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...