NEW YORK (AP) – One retired police officer who told the government he was too psychologically damaged to work ran a martial arts studio, prosecutors said. Another claimed his depression was so ...

WASHINGTON – When President Donald Trump took office again, the work of the federal office that investigates disability-related discrimination in U.S. schools quickly ground to a halt. Cases that had ...

Federal education officials need twice as much money to keep up with a flood of complaints alleging discrimination against students with disabilities and others in the nation’s schools, advocates say.

Collete Lee, a Baltimore postal worker, thought she had the government fooled as she collected a quarter of a million dollars in both disability checks and food stamps for six straight years. Then U.S ...

An Eastern Kentucky attorney who recruited scores of lawyers to try to help people keep benefits after the largest disability scam in U.S. history has received a national award. Ned Pillersdorf, whose ...

Disability nightmare: Applying for benefits can be long, difficult road for some ailing Americans Although his fraud case has been adjudicated, it continues to have an impact today, including in New ...

NEW YORK — When dozens of former police officers and firefighters sought disability benefits, advisers provided a playbook for faking mental illness — how to describe daily routines of languishing ...

A landlord’s denial of a support dog for one of its Long Island tenants resulted in fair housing laws biting back, leading to a settlement in the case. Jamaica, Queens-based Zara Realty Holding Corp.

(Updates with descriptions of faked illnesses in the sixth, seventh paragraphs.) Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Eleven people, including two doctors and a former union president, were charged by the U.S. with ...