The Social Security Administration is updating its disability review process with centralized evaluations and digital tools to speed decisions without changing eligibility rules.

A state employee's disability pension appeal landed in the wrong court – and a new ruling makes clear where HR teams should be directing workers instead.

The VA, however, will still deploy a “data collection tool,” still in development, to look for false or exaggerated evidence in newly submitted DBQs.

Using a Microsoft data analytics program, the VA program will use information gleaned from DBQ forms to identify patterns that could indicate fraud.

Americans with disabilities face unique challenges. Applying for disability benefits should not be one of them. As the Chief for Disability Adjudication for the United States Social Security ...

Amid protests over removal of income tax exemption to a section of retired military personnel getting ‘disability pension’, it turns out the decision to bring in new rules originated after a report by ...

An NYPD officer debilitated by COVID and unable to work again won’t get a line-of-duty disability pension because of disagreement at the Police Pension Fund over how to handle such cases. Although the ...

Minnesota offers a cautionary tale of increasing PTSD disabilities, says columnist Mark Patinkin. In Central Falls, 49 of 108 police and fire retirees are on disability – 45%. In Johnston, it's 75%.

June 21--A dozen former Hazleton employees collected more than $340,000 in disability pension payments in 2014, with the cost accounting for about 15 percent of the $2.57 million in pension payments ...