Disability

Disability Pride Week celebrates disability culture

25 May 2012

The ASUW Student Disability Commission (SDC) changed its annual awareness week to “Disability Pride Week� this year to broaden the focus of its events.

Disability advocate: Waiting list issues 'systemic'

24 May 2012

A leading advocate for the state's developmentally disabled lauded recent appropriations for Medicaid services Thursday, but said the waiting list for those services continues to grow and the problem is no longer purely financial.

N.Y. Rail Workers in Disability Scam May Be Eligible for Amnesty

24 May 2012

Long Island Rail Road retirees who faked disability claims in order to get more lucrative pensions would avoid prosecution and be able to keep some benefits if they admit wrongdoing under a deal with the federal government, officials said Tuesday. …