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Some Medicare-age people are having important Medicare enrollment choices made for them, often without their knowledge/

While it is illegal for a nursing home to discriminate against a Medicaid recipient, it still happens. To prevent such discrimination, nursing home residents and their families need to know [...]

I am the new Representative Payee for a Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiary.  The beneficiary was overpaid for over a year and now the Social Security Administration (SSA) is [...]

The Special Needs Trust Fairness Act, a bill that would correct a decades-old error in federal law that prohibits people with special needs from creating their own special needs trusts, has [...]

Michael Anderson, a 35-year-old quadripalegic man who needs the assistance of a personal care attendant (PCA), asked the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia's science museum, to waive the [...]

Saying that there has been "undue influence" is often used as a reason to contest a will or estate plan, but what does it mean?

A federal district court rules that the Social Security Administration’s Appeals Council did not have good cause to question an administrative law judge's finding that a Supplemental [...]

Although voting is the hallmark of a democracy, it isn't easy if you are in a long-term care facility. Nursing home residents face several challenges to voting, from registering to vote to [...]

Because access to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) depends on a beneficiary's income and resources, even small increases in income can cause a reduction or loss of SSI benefits. [...]

The government prepares a budget. Businesses and families prepare budgets. A special needs trust should be no different.