As of 2011, the average college student (graduate and undergraduate) left school with $23,300 in debt. Repayment of student loans has always been difficult, but with the economy still working its way back, many recent graduates have no jobs and no way to pay back their loans. People with disabilities that prevent them from working…
Compassionate Allowances are a way of quickly identifying diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under the statutory standard for disability. The Compassionate Allowances program fast-tracks disability decisions to ensure that Americans with the most serious disabilities receive their benefit decisions within days instead of months or years. The Social Security Administration will add…
People with special needs may qualify for a variety of government benefits, including Medi-cal and Medicare. It can be difficult to tell the two programs apart, especially because their names are so similar. However, Medi-Cal and Medicare, which account for the lions share of federal spending on health care, are dramatically different programs with different…