Special Needs News

At least 36 states and the District of Columbia are diverting federal benefits like Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security survivors’ benefits owed to children in foster care. 

A new website helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, as well as their families, and caregivers, sort fact from fiction when it comes to Covid-19 vaccines.

A San Francisco arbitrator has ordered Uber to pay $1.1 million to a blind woman with a service dog for the rideshare giant’s violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) through [...]

It's easy to throw your new special needs trust into a drawer and forget about it.  While having a plan in place is a great start, the trust and related documents do need to be maintained.

The Biden administration has announced relief for hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities who had their federal student loan debt reinstated because they failed to submit the proper [...]

Nearly a quarter of police shooting victims are mentally ill, according to one study.  Growing outrage over these fatal encounters has spurred a variety of potential remedies.

A bipartisan bill fixes a flaw in earlier legislation and would finally allow any veteran to allocate pension payments to a trust for their survivors with special needs. 

The American Rescue Plan, signed into law by President Biden on March 11, 2021, makes health coverage bought through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) vastly more affordable for millions of [...]

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 [...]