WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security made $1.3 billion in potentially improper disability payments to people who had jobs when they were supposed to be unable to work, congressional investigators said in a report Friday.

Ohio's senior US Senator Sherrod Brown was in central Columbus Tuesday morning at Veterans Memorial where he gave hope to about 490,000 veterans waiting on benefit claims from the Veterans Administration [VA] in the form of two…

The Department of Veterans Affairs, the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) announced today a new partnership and pilot program aimed at reducing the claims backlog and making it easier for unrepresented…

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has converted over 30 percent of the current disability claims inventory and are now digital and accessible to claim raters in VA’s electronic claims processing system. This effort is part of…

The words 'mental retardation' will not be used on certificates issued to patients who have a mental illness anymore. You can thank the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for that. Recently, APA replaced 'mental retardation' in the Diagnostic and …

Arthur and Alfie, from Kirkham, Lancashire, both 10 months old, share the exactly same medical conditions and need the same round-the-clock care. But a government ruling has found that only Arthur was entitled to Disability Living Allowance of £76 per month.

Australian researchers were a part of an MSBase.org study, using this global networking website, to analyze the rate of disability for those with multiple sclerosis (MS).They collected information from Expanded Disability Severity Scores (EDSS)…

The unexpectedly large number of American workers who piled into the Social Security Administration’s disability program in the recession and its aftermath threatens to cost the economy tens of billions yearly in lost wages and tax revenues.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said the surge was an illustration of the need to reform a ‘ridiculous’ system which has seen the numbers claiming spiral to 3.2million.

The latest hot topic of debate in Washington is the rising cost of the Social Security disability program, which provides insurance for workers who are unable to work due to health conditions.