Disability insurance is an important element in protecting your financial well-being. This insurance offers income replacement if you get hurt or can no longer work because of physical limitations. So ...

For years, veterans who live with a debilitating lung ailment after being exposed to toxic air and burning trash during their service have reported they’ve struggled to get disability benefits through ...

Short-term disability is a type of government-run insurance or employer benefit that gives you income replacement for a temporary period when you are unable to work due to a covered illness, injury, ...

Q: How does someone qualify to get disability income from Social Security? A: To qualify for Social Security disability benefits, you must have worked long enough in jobs covered by Social Security, ...

In March 2025, Public Investigator reported on a Wisconsin man who paid into Social Security for years but after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis was unable to get disability benefits. Due to a ...

The way people with disabilities are treated is backsliding in the U.S., advocates say. Cruel names are slung around without a second thought; fingers are pointed; “jokes” are whispered just out of ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs spends billions on dubious and even fraudulent disabilities benefits. Meanwhile, some ...

Disability nightmare: Applying for benefits can be long, difficult road for some ailing Americans Although his fraud case has been adjudicated, it continues to have an impact today, including in New ...