Advocates fear that new rules under the Developmental Disability Administration will create hurdles for those who self-direct their disability care services. Photo by Danielle J. Brown. Disability ...

Getting compensation for war-related injuries is a bureaucratic nightmare that drives veterans to the edge with “claims anxiety.” Bill Mintz has trouble sleeping, trouble standing, trouble with his ...

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Efforts to limit the administrative burden schools face in serving students in special education have been met with little enthusiasm, a federal investigation finds. Despite long-running concerns that ...

A Trump Administration proposal to require more frequent paperwork reviews of people receiving Social Security disability benefits could cut benefits to tens of thousands of people across the nation.

For Angela Carter, disability is more than a field of study. A Ph.D. candidate and instructor at the University of Minnesota studying feminism and disability studies, Carter identifies as a ...

Army officials in upstate New York instructed representatives from the Department of Veterans Affairs not to help disabled soldiers at Fort Drum Army base with their military disability paperwork last ...