Social Security Disability Insurance, or SSDI, is a program that provides monthly payments to disabled workers, adult children and widows or widowers. The program requires a qualifying diagnosis that ...

Social Security has two disability benefit programs. Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, is a need-based program, designed to help disabled low-income individuals with limited resources, and Social ...

Applying for SSI? Your application may also be treated as an application for Medicaid. Here's how to find out if you're automatically enrolled in the program. When you apply for Supplemental Security ...

Dear Savvy Senior: What do I need to do to get disability benefits from Social Security? I’m 60 years old and have a medical condition that doesn’t allow me to work anymore. But I’ve read that getting ...

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

“Enable: The Disability Podcast,” about amazing people with disabilities and different abilities, will release new episodes weekly on YouTube and all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple, ...

Applying for disability benefits can feel overwhelming, especially when mental health conditions are making it hard to hold down steady work. Many people wonder not only how to apply for Social ...

Question: A woman from Carbon Cliff writes: ``I have some friends who say that there is a program for senior citizens that pays them an extra supplemental check in addition to the Social Security ...

If you apply for Supplemental Security Income, you're sometimes automatically enrolled in Medicaid. We'll go over the details and how to apply if you need to do so. Blake has over a decade of ...