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EXCLUSIVE – The Social Security Administration on Monday unveiled new improvements to its disability adjudication process. The SSA said recent upgrades have reduced the backlog in its pending ...

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An optometrist provides an eye exam to a VA beneficiary in 2022 at Fort Meade, Maryland. (Michelle Gonzalez/U.S. Army) Veterans Affairs medical examiners are now required to consider the effects of ...

WASHINGTON — Veterans and their advocates slammed a new rule by the Department of Veterans Affairs for determining disability compensation, predicting it will lower their payments for service-related ...

A one-of-a-kind museum chronicling disability history is reopening after a five-year hiatus in a new, bigger space that’s hundreds of miles away from its previous home. The Museum of Disability ...

WASHINGTON — A federal watchdog warned lawmakers that the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to fully revise the 80-year-old criteria for awarding disability payments or risk miscalculating benefits ...

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O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Disney's Disability Access Service (DAS) allows guests who cannot wait in a conventional queue to wait elsewhere. Changes last year specify DAS is for guests with developmental disabilities like ...

Accommodations for cognitive disabilities and mental health conditions have also drawn more scrutiny than accommodations for physical disabilities. Stephen T. Hall-Nunez ’28, the co-president of the ...