To qualify, you must have a severe physical or mental impairment that is expected to keep you out of work for at least 12 months – or a condition that is terminal. designer491 / Getty ...

Planet Money looks at company called PCG which state governments hire to move people off of welfare and onto disability. States hire PCG to do this because states pay part of the bill for welfare, but ...

Approximately 1 in 4, or 61 million, adults in the United States report a disability, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. If you have a physical or mental ...

In this provocative volume, Richard V. Burkhauser and Mary C. Daly argue that the U.S. disability system is failing–growing at an unsustainable pace for taxpayers and delivering relatively poor ...

SSA Commissioner Martin O’Malley sat down with Nextgov/FCW recently to talk through the agency’s biggest challenges, including how it delivers disability assistance. SSA Workforce Budget Customer ...