Recently passed legislation giving disability advocates new tools to improve protections for Social Security disability beneficiaries for representative payees who abuse thier positition

Understanding what benefits might be available to your child or loved one with special needs can be confusing. Different benefits apply in different circumstances, and sometimes different [...]

A U.S. court of appeal has struck down a Department of Labor rule that was intended to prevent financial advisers from steering their [...]

Administrator-managed prepaid debit cards offer beneficiaries of special needs trusts greater independence and the ability to get what they need more quickly.  But up till now such cards [...]

There are two main types of employee retirement savings plans: the traditional 401(k) and the Roth 401(k). Distributions from a [...]

In an underreported case highlighting tensions between police and people with psychiatric disorders, the state of California has agreed to pay nearly $ 1million to a man with schizophrenia. [...]

Arizona and Florida are the latest states to request a waiver from the requirement that states provide three months of retroactive [...]

New charges against "Mr Social Security" to move forward, while thousands of former clients remain in limbo

Figuring out how much to save for retirement and when you can safely stop working can be difficult. A growing number of online [...]

New rules have been put in to place to protect seniors with brokerage accounts from financial scams that could drain the accounts [...]