To qualify, you must have a severe physical or mental impairment that is expected to keep you out of work for at least 12 months – or a condition that is terminal. designer491 / Getty ...

Approximately 1 in 4, or 61 million, adults in the United States report a disability, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. If you have a physical or mental ...

Planet Money looks at company called PCG which state governments hire to move people off of welfare and onto disability. States hire PCG to do this because states pay part of the bill for welfare, but ...

When American soldiers return home from war with disabilities, they often suffer twice — first from their combat injuries, next from the humiliation of government dependency. Wounded veterans learn ...

In this provocative volume, Richard V. Burkhauser and Mary C. Daly argue that the U.S. disability system is failing–growing at an unsustainable pace for taxpayers and delivering relatively poor ...

The VA disability benefits framework was designed to provide veterans with structured, lawful access to compensation ...

The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an "incapacity benefit" — a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a ...

The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an “incapacity benefit” — a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a ...

The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an “incapacity benefit” — a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a ...