Military benefits often extend beyond the veteran alone. One of the ways the nation recognizes the sacrifice is by ensuring ...

Children can stay on a parent’s FEHB or PSHB plan until 26, but understanding the 31-day extension, conversion options and ...

Faced with horrifying child abuse deaths, often in cases that were well known to child protective services agencies, there are two ways to respond: Determine what went wrong case-by-case and do the ...

Arizona families caring for children with disabilities say they will receive less state funding for important services as assessment changes kicked in Wednesday. Six more houses collapsed into the sea ...

The federal government is scheduled to shut down on Wednesday if lawmakers do not pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded. But what happens to benefit payments like Social Security, ...

Veterans' disability benefits claims were blindly rubber-stamped by a senior veterans service representative (VSR) at the Philadelphia VA Regional Benefit Office for years, resulting in an estimated ...

The Office of Inspector General report revealed that in some cases the employee took only about 3 minutes between making each approval. (Getty Images) Veterans’ disability benefits claims were blindly ...

Some welcomed more research and possible new treatments. But the administration’s embrace of unproven science and depiction of autism as a “crisis” has sown deep mistrust. By Sonia A. Rao Sonia A. Rao ...

Roughly 6.5 million U.S. veterans collect monthly, tax-free disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). These payments are provided to veterans whose health conditions began ...