disability

Lawmakers are faulting the SAA for issuing billions in payments that beneficiaries weren’t entitled to receive — and then demanding the money back — as reported by KFF Health News and Cox Media Group.

Supplemental Security Income, a federal program meant to be a financial floor for people unable to work, hasn't kept pace with inflation. Many recipients are homeless, unable to save for an apartment.

The measure would prevent doctors from performing abortions that women seek because of tests showing that fetuses will have disabilities.

The bill, which drew emotional debate among subcommittee members. would involve situations in which doctors know a person is seeking an abortion because the fetus will have a disability.

Without federal tracking, no one knows how many people in disability group housing have fallen ill or died from the virus. And few states are prioritizing them for vaccination.

Disability advocates want poll workers to ask everyone if they wish to use an accessible voting machine. The idea is to decrease stigma around disabilities and make the voting process more inclusive. Traditionally, if a person needed an accessible machine, they would have to ask for it.

Citing a lack of staff as the primary culprit, Florida’s leading watchdog group for people with disabilities says it has found dirty living conditions,…

A Pulse shooting first responder with PTSD was granted disability benefits today. Former Eatonville Police Officer Omar Delgado’s benefits had been in…

A candidate with a difference is running for State Senate District 23 in Sarasota. And if she wins, this difference could make a bit of history.

A new Florida task force met for the first time this week to start looking into transportation issues people with developmental and intellectual...