EVERY SO often, the federal government’s financial performance surprises on the upside. Recent case in point: new data in the annual report of the [...]

House Republicans offered a budget proposal on Tuesday that would cut mandatory spending by $5.4 trillion over a decade, including $537 billion in cuts [...]

Services for children with disabilities and their families should be far more coordinated and easier to access, according to a new report produced for [...]

Sen. Charles Schumer told a crowd of 130 people at the Glenville Senior Center that he will use his clout as majority leader to ensure [...]

President Trump quietly signed a long-anticipated executive order on Tuesday intended to force low-income recipients of food assistance, Medicaid and low-income housing subsidies to join [...]

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) — which provides modest but vital benefits to workers who can no longer support themselves due to a serious and [...]

Reports of Social Security’s financial problems appear like clockwork, yet the agency’s enormous operational issues receive little attention. Long before 2034 – the currently projected [...]

For the elderly and disabled who complain about poor Social Security assistance now, these might be the good old days. President Trump’s proposed fiscal 2019 [...]

The bipartisan agreement to raise the caps on discretionary spending in 2018 and 2019 reportedly calls for higher funding for the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) operating budget, [...]