When a parent cares full-time for a disabled adult child, Social Security rules can add unexpected financial hurdles. One mother recently shared her story on the r/SocialSecurity subreddit after ...

I visit her, but I find it increasingly difficult, knowing that one day I won’t be there for her. Physically, I’m unable to take her out by myself.

The law says if a “child” was disabled before the age of 22, he or she will get disabled adult child, or DAC, benefits.(miodrag ignjatovic / Getty Images) Whenever I see a parent with a disabled child ...

Whenever I see a parent with a disabled child, it tugs at my heartstrings. On the one hand, I can’t imagine the hardships they must face almost every day. I think of our neighbors — a retired couple ...

Conversations like these play out every day in the homes of aging parents who know that their days of caring for their intellectually and developmentally disabled adult children are numbered. After ...

If you have a parent short on savings, a disabled adult child or a minor with special needs, Medicaid may be your backstop. Plenty of people are unaware. By Ron Lieber When cuts to Medicaid were under ...

For years, the woman and her now-estranged husband raised their son together. Their adult son, who has a profound developmental disability, qualified for SSI at age 18. While his benefit was already ...