President-Elect Biden’s Promises to People with Disabilities Are Numerous
President-elect Joe Biden has made more promises to the disability community than perhaps any incoming president in U.S. history, raising the hopes of advocates.
Strategies for Bridging SSDI’s Medicare Waiting Period
An added benefit to SSDI is health insurance coverage through Medicare. But there is a precarious two-year gap between receiving approval for disability benefits and becoming eligible for [...]
Will People with Disabilities Have Priority for a COVID-19 Vaccine?
As we move closer to the approval of one or more COVID-19 vaccines, questions continue about whether the vaccines will be allocated in a way that does not discriminate against people with [...]
Justices Skeptical of Arguments to Overturn Health Care Law, Which Protects People with Disabilities
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments November 10 in a case weighing the elimination of the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), with potentially dire implications for [...]
IRS Issues Final Regulations for ABLE Accounts
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued final regulations covering tax-free savings accounts that allow people with disabilities and their families to save and pay for disability-related [...]
Social Security Disability Benefits to Rise by Only 1.3 Percent in 2021
Social Security disability recipients will see an increase in benefit levels for 2021, although the rise will be the smallest in years, due to the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 [...]
Disability Advocates Fear Consequences of Premature End to Census Count
The U.S. Supreme Court's terse order halting the census count more than two weeks early could result in the undercounting of people with disabilities and less funding of services like [...]
Government Agency Calls for End to Program Allowing Subminimum Wages for People with Disabilities
A nonpartisan federal agency has called on the government to end a program that explicitly permits employers to pay hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities less than $1 an hour.
Accurate Head Count Vital to Disability Programs More Likely After Court Rules Census Cannot be Ended Prematurely
For the past two months, the very real possibility has loomed that the collection of census data would end early, resulting in the undercounting of people with disabilities and less funding [...]
What Happens to Assets Left in a Special Needs Trust on the Death of the Beneficiary?
Terminating a special needs trust is not as simple as merely writing a check to the remainder beneficiaries and calling it a day. There are several key considerations and requirements to keep [...]
