The Social Security Administration (SSA) is making it easier for people with severe medical conditions to access disability benefits by adding 13 diseases to its Compassionate Allowances List. The ...

The Social Security Administration announced that 13 more medical conditions and diseases will be added to the agency's list of serious afflictions that will enable more adults and children to access ...

The Social Security Administration has added 13 new diseases and conditions to its list of disabilities, which earn those suffering serious medical issues a faster benefits application process. Those ...

In March 2025, Public Investigator reported on a Wisconsin man who paid into Social Security for years but after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis was unable to get disability benefits. Due to a ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has added more than 10 new conditions to its Compassionate Allowances (CAL) list. The purpose of CAL is to help expedite the processing of disability claims ...

The disability benefits that veterans receive from the Department of Veterans Affairs have become the subject of a growing number of policy papers and editorials that argue those benefits are too ...

Medical retirees with fewer than 20 years of service don't qualify for CRDP at all, regardless of their VA disability rating.

The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul of the federal safety net for poor, ...

Those suffering certain serious medical issues can possibly gain faster Social Security benefits now that the Social Security Administration has added 13 new diseases and conditions to its list of ...