Millions of Americans receiving Social Security benefits have scheduled payment dates throughout October 2026, with ...

Katie Savin Assistant Professor of Social Work, California State University, Sacramento Callie Freitag Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison Matthew Borus Assistant ...

A rapid series of administrative, staffing and policy changes the Social Security Administration underwent early on in the second Trump administration are making it much harder to get disability ...

I won't get a disability certificate. I had always decided that.But this time, at a networking event, someone asked, 'Why don ...

Veterans getting disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs will receive payments for October earlier than usual. The deposits for a particular month usually comes in on the first ...

For a couple of different reasons, a claim for Social Security disability benefits may be reviewed. One is what the Social Security Administration calls a "quality assurance review." The other is what ...

In April, as I stepped onto a cruise ship with my family, I should have been excited. But often, I don’t have the luxury of feeling that first moment of vacation bliss. Living with multiple sclerosis, ...

New Social Security Administration data show just shy of 11 million Americans — including workers and their family — receiving Social Security disability benefits. That’s up 24% since the start of the ...

Lacking insight into the impacts of the many changes underway, we launched a project to study how they were affecting access to disability benefits. We interviewed benefits representatives – lawyers, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Some rules changed and changed back again. For instance, Social Security officials ...