The benefits provide important economic support for older people who cannot work. The White House recently halted changes to ...

The Social Security Administration could change the job and age criteria that helps determine disability eligibility — meaning that 750,000 disabled Americans could be unable to get such benefits. The ...

The Social Security Administration has abandoned plans to block thousands of older Americans from qualifying for disability benefits after an uproar that reached senior officials in the Trump White ...

The Social Security Administration is preparing the most sweeping changes to disability benefits in its history, and the fallout could disqualify as many as 750,000 Americans from benefits, according ...

Trump administration officials informed the co-founder of a nonprofit disability advocacy group that a proposed rule — which would have updated decades-old occupational data, in addition to changing ...

The Trump administration wants to cut back disability benefits for low-income and older Americans by up to 20%, a move that could affect hundreds of thousands of people. (1) It’s part of the ...

The Washington Post is reporting that the Trump administration is working on a plan to change age requirements for Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments by raising the ...

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz decried a Trump administration proposal that she and her Democratic colleagues warn would result in “one of the largest cuts to Social Security disability benefits ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On Nov. 13, a small team of advocates for people with ...

Of the over 71 million Americans who receive regular Social Security payments, some may have begun receiving smaller checks. However, the payments should arrive on schedule nonetheless. September's ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has reportedly abandoned a proposal that would have prevented thousands of Americans from accessing disability benefits, according to a report by The ...