Disability pensions are under scrutiny again, as more evidence mounts that spurious claims are bleeding public pension funds and the nation's Social Security disability plan. At the federal level, the ...

PROVIDENCE − A potential compromise has been reached in a high-stakes battle over 100% injured-on-duty pay − and tax-free disability pensions − for police and firefighters diagnosed with ...

June 21--A dozen former Hazleton employees collected more than $340,000 in disability pension payments in 2014, with the cost accounting for about 15 percent of the $2.57 million in pension payments ...

An NYPD officer debilitated by COVID and unable to work again won’t get a line-of-duty disability pension because of disagreement at the Police Pension Fund over how to handle such cases. Although the ...

A fired district court law clerk sued a Pennsylvania county's retirement system, saying it hasn't set forth clear guidelines to determine how and when employees qualify for disability pensions.

A former New Jersey cop opened a crime-scene cleaning business after retiring for what he claimed was post-traumatic stress disorder from working on such gruesome homicide scenes, NBC 4 New York's ...

Disabled stuntwoman Leslie Hoffman has won a major legal battle in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has reversed a lower court’s ruling and ordered a trial of her lawsuit that claimed that ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – The Rhode Island Supreme Court has tossed out a judge’s decision to restore the disability pension benefits for John Sauro, the embattled former Providence firefighter who in ...

State senators Monday voted to guarantee firefighters tax-free disability pensions if they get cancer and make it more difficult to revoke occupational licenses for criminal convictions. But Senate ...