Special Needs Newsletter

December 2020

Courtesy of
Michael Beloff, CFP®, ChSNC®


President-Elect Biden’s Promises to People with Disabilities Are Numerous

President-elect Joe Biden has made more promises to the disability community than perhaps any incoming president in U.S. history, raising the hopes of advocates.

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Strategies for Bridging SSDI’s Medicare Waiting Period

An added benefit to SSDI is health insurance coverage through Medicare. But there is a precarious two-year gap between receiving approval for disability benefits and becoming eligible for Medicare’s insurance coverage.

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Will People with Disabilities Have Priority for a COVID-19 Vaccine?

As we move closer to the approval of one or more COVID-19 vaccines, questions continue about whether the vaccines will be allocated in a way that does not discriminate against people with disabilities.

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Justices Skeptical of Arguments to Overturn Health Care Law, Which Protects People with Disabilities

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments November 10 in a case weighing the elimination of the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), with potentially dire implications for the civil rights of people with disabilities.

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