The Social Security Administration has halted a proposed overhaul of disability rules that advocates warned could deny benefits to thousands of older Americans.

The newly introduced SWIFT Act aims to expand Social Security survivor benefits for disabled individuals. Find out what the ...

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 ...

One of Russell Vought’s top regulatory policies upon taking the helm at OMB this year was, according to a former Trump ...

An upcoming regulatory proposal would change the rules of Social Security disability programs to make it harder to qualify, particularly harming older adults. A woman holds a sign in support of Social ...

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz decried a Trump administration proposal that she and her Democratic colleagues warn would result in “one of the largest cuts to Social Security disability benefits ...

Social Security payment of up to $4,018 arrives on December 17, 2025: The Social Security Administration is preparing one of ...

President Donald Trump now wants to make it harder for the most vulnerable, including those older Americans over age 50, to receive Social Security Disability benefits (“Trump plan would limit ...

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Washington, D.C. — The Trump administration is preparing a regulatory proposal that could represent the largest Social Security disability benefit cut in history. The expected changes would make it ...

If you started receiving Social Security before May 1997 or you receive both Social Security and Supplemental Security Income ...

Few if any programs of the U.S. government touch as many people as directly as Social Security. Nearly every working American pays Social Security taxes, and more than 55 million people receive ...