The department is planning to broaden its machine learning-powered Automated Decision Support tool to cover more types of claims.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins testifies before his Senate Veterans Affairs committee confirmation hearing on Capitol ...

Improvements to the benefits claims process have cut through the delays and bureaucracy for thousands of Americans with disabilities, according to new data from the Social Security Administration. The ...

EXCLUSIVE – The Social Security Administration on Monday unveiled new improvements to its disability adjudication process. The SSA said recent upgrades have reduced the backlog in its pending ...

Today, more than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. It is a brain condition that causes problems with memory, thinking, and behavior. Since the onset of Alzheimer’s can occur in ...

The Veterans Affairs Department has reached the “tipping point” in clearing up its massive backlog of disability claims, a top VA official told a hearing of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Veterans Affairs officials said the disability claims backlog fell to about 190,000 cases on June 23. (VA graphic) Veterans ...

Today, more than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease. It is a brain condition that causes problems with memory, thinking, and behavior. Since the onset of Alzheimer's can occur in ...

Lockheed Martin Corp. has been named prime contractor on the Social Security Administration’s Disability Case Processing System contract, an IT modernization program to improve the quality and speed ...