Health Affairs

Disability Mortality Disparity: Risk Of Mortality For Disabled Adults Nearly Twice That For Nondisabled Adults, 2008–19

Scott D. Landes ([email protected]), Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. After years of advocacy by the disability community and allied organizations, on September 26, 2023, the National ...
Health Affairs

Improved State-Level Disability Data Are Necessary For Advancing Health Equity

(Editor’s note: The federal government has removed several web pages linked to in this brief. Where possible, links to archived versions have been inserted.) Data are the cornerstone of public health ...
CNBC

13% of Americans have a disability—what this means during the job application process

For more than 40 million Americans, job applications may pose a challenging question: Do you have a disability? Roughly 13% of the U.S. population identifies as having a disability, according to the ...

I don’t want Social Security to switch me from disability to retirement benefits. How can I stop it?

“I want to wait until 70 to collect full retirement benefits.” ...
Newsweek

Veterans Benefits Payment of Up to $4,544 To Be Paid This Week

There are some 6.2 million Veterans in the U.S. who receive disability benefits from the VA. Compensation offers tax-free monthly benefits for those with disabilities resulting from diseases, events, ...