Under section 14(c) of the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, some people with disabilities can legally be paid pennies an hour. A new rule proposed by the Department of Labor would end the ...

Program is administered by the SSA and helps SSDI beneficiaries explore and return to work while maintaining access to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Keely founded Making Space, closing the disability employment gap. As federal employees face another government shutdown, the ...

Why some disabled workers make $1 an hour Across the country thousands of disabled workers are making less than a dollar an hour. Today, an investigation into the federal program that allows workers ...

Disabled federal workers hired under Schedule A are being laid off. Trump administration rolls back disability inclusion efforts. Advocates fear setbacks to decades of federal disability hiring ...

WASHINGTON — Spencer Goidel, a 33-year-old federal worker in Boca Raton, Florida, with autism, knew what he could be losing when he got laid off from his job as an equal employment opportunity ...

When Keighley Miles was at school, it was always assumed that she wouldn’t be able to find work. ‘Nothing was ever mentioned about career options or further education,’ the 39-year-old, who was born ...

To receive cash benefits from the Social Security Disability Insurance program and health benefits from Medicare, federal rules require that a worker must have a significant disability that prevents ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Imagine not getting hired because an employer thought you'd be absent too much, be too sick, or would cost the company too much money. Those are just some of the roadblocks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman assists an employee with a woodcraft task. In a proposal released last week, the federal government would stop issuing new ...