Why It's Vital To Protect Your Income (The Motley Fool)

If you couldn't work because of an illness or disability, how would you cope financially? Rely on state handouts and hope for the best?

National Senior and Disability Advocates Agree on Principles for Financing Long-Term Services and Supports (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)

In a historic step toward a healthier, more equitable and affordable system for financing long-term services and supports, the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO) and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) have agreed on a set of joint principles for reform.

Christmas check a simple pleasure for fixed-income woman (San Jose Mercury News)

When a friend referred Loie Johnson to the Christmas Bureau of Palo Alto, a nonprofit that sends holiday checks to some of the city's poorest residents, she had some initial reservations. 'I felt like I didn't deserve it,' she said. 'I told him, 'I'm sure other people need it more.— It was a gracious response from a single woman who has been living on less than $900 a month since chronic fatigue ...

Retired officer from Suffern to serve probation for fraud (The Journal News)

A retired New York City police officer from Suffern has been ordered to serve two years' probation for illegally collecting Social Security disability payments.

LIRR executive busted for disability benefits scam (New York Daily News)

A Long Island Rail Road executive has been busted for masterminding "systematic abuse" that helped colleagues bilk the U.S. government out of disability benefits.