Disability Issues

Although it took more than a year of back and forth, a comprehensive health care reform bill and an associated reconciliation bill finally passed both houses of Congress. We have highlighted some of the most important features of health care...

Special Needs 101

In its first three weeks in office, President Biden’s administration reversed a range of high-profile Trump Administration regulations that affected people with disabilities. ...

Thanks to legislation enacted at the end of the Trump Administration, people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) -- better known as Lou Gehrig's disease -- will be exempted from SSDI's five-month waiting period for benefits.

Despite passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act more than 30 years ago, traveling with children with special needs can still pose challenges. Fortunately, there are resources available to help families plan their trips.

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that the federal government is failing to adequately monitor managed care programs that deliver Medicaid long-term care services to people with disabilities, resulting in beneficiary services being inappropriately denied or reduced.

As many as eight million eligible citizens may not have received their second Covid relief checks, primarily because their income is so low that they have not been required to file tax returns.

The $900 billion Covid-19 pandemic relief package, signed into law on December 27, 2020, contains almost no funding for programs specific to people with disabilities.

The nation’s largest passenger rail network has reached an agreement with the Department of Justice to finally bring its services into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. ...

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has finalized regulations that end protections for people seeking to fly with emotional support animals on airlines; only service dogs will be officially allowed on flights.