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 ...

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 ...

After some speculation about a delay in implementation of the final rules on claims adjudication of disability claims under welfare and retirement plans (the Final Rule), the US Department of Labor ...

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 ...