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Over 1,400 accessibility-related complaints filed on govt app since 2021 launch, 75% solved, notes recent data
Information revealed following a Right to Information (RTI) request filed by PTI showed that 1,441 …
PTI
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Disability affairs department receives hike of 0.02%, allocated Rs 1,225 crore in budget
The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities has been allocated a total of Rs 1,225.2…
PTI
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Biden just canceled student debt for 41,000 borrowers with disabilities. Here's who qualifies.
Borrowers may qualify for student loan forgiveness if the VA ruled them unemployable or if a physic…
Ayelet Sheffey
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A disabled veteran facing $7,000-per-week medical costs wrote a letter begging the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy judge not to allow a settlement
People trying to settle claims against Purdue Pharma have written emotional letters to the bankrupt…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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4 cops were caught on video laughing after a disabled veteran urinated on himself after being denied restroom access
Dynell Lane, a veteran who was wounded while deployed for the US Army, was refused access to a rest…
Alia Shoaib
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Biden's Education Dept. just erased $5.8 billion in student-debt for 323,000 borrowers
Education Sec. Miguel Cardona announced automatic cancelation for borrowers with total and permanen…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Identity verification service ID.me has a lucrative contract with the VA. Veterans and their families say it’s locked them out of disability payments and emergency assistance.
These issues disproportionately affected older veterans and veterans abroad, and added technical hu…
Caroline Haskins
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An Army veteran lied about being paralyzed to get over $1 million in disability benefits and used some of the money to buy a BMW, feds say
According to court documents, investigators saw the Army veteran walk up and down stairs, lift and …
Kelly McLaughlin
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350,000 student-loan borrowers with disabilities have gotten $7 billion in debt wiped out under Biden. Here's how to qualify.
Biden has taken steps to improve student-loan forgiveness for borrowers with total and permanent di…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Rep. Ruben Gallego pushes for VA to strip benefits from service members and veterans who stormed the Capitol
"Any veteran or servicemember who stormed the Capitol ... forfeited their moral entitlement to priv…
John L. Dorman
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Student-loan borrowers with disabilities could be paying extra taxes because of 'false and misleading' information on debt forgiveness, advocates say
Student-loan borrowers with disabilities may not know their debt forgiveness isn't taxable. Student…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden's student-loan forgiveness 'does not go far enough' for seniors and people with disabilities facing 'crippling debt,' a Democratic lawmaker says
A group of Democrats want to bolster Biden's student-debt relief by canceling loans for those on Me…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Startup Parrots is using 5G to develop a bird-shaped, AI-powered machine that helps people with disabilities communicate
Its product, called Polly, is an oblong camera that grips onto wheelchairs and provides a 360-degre…
Karen Fischer
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Biden's DOE just canceled $1.3 billion of student debt for 41,000 borrowers with disabilities - and ended a rule requiring 230,000 to submit paperwork to qualify
Under a program started under Obama, borrowers with disabilities could apply to cancel student loan…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Up to 2 million veterans could miss out on $1,200 stimulus checks if they don't file with the IRS
Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have called on the IRS and Treasury to make the payments a…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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517,000 student-loan borrowers with disabilities should get their debt wiped out, bipartisan lawmakers say
Six lawmakers want to remove the "bureaucratic barriers" borrowers with total and permanent disabil…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden's Education Department just proposed a student-loan forgiveness revamp so borrowers 'don't have to jump through hoops' for debt relief
From preventing surges in student loan interest to making targeted relief easier to gain, a range o…
Ayelet Sheffey
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4 student-loan forgiveness programs might become easier to qualify for. Here's what you need to know.
Biden's Education Department released proposals to improve major student-loan forgiveness programs,…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Ousted Veteran Affairs secretary trashes Trump administration: 'It shouldn't be this hard to serve your country'
"We have expanded access to healthcare by reducing wait times, increasing productivity and working …
Christopher Woody
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The American Legion Calls For Resignations At Veterans Affairs Over 'Incompetence'
VA's senior leaders didn't seem to realize that one great tragedy of these delays and needless deat…