Accrued benefits are earned over time and include sick pay, vacation days, and stock plans. Learn how they work and impact employee compensation plans.

Spousal benefits have some unique rules about claiming age and eligibility. You could be eligible for up to half your spouse's Social Security benefit. Understanding how your benefits could change as ...

Pass the pot to Grandma — her brain might thank you. A new study is challenging long-held assumptions about cannabis, finding that middle-aged and older adults who use the drug may actually see some ...

The risk artificial intelligence poses to students outweighs its benefits, concludes a Brookings Institution report released earlier this month. Yet the reality is that 85% of teachers and 86% of ...

WASHINGTON — A federal watchdog warned lawmakers that the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to fully revise the 80-year-old criteria for awarding disability payments or risk miscalculating benefits ...

Researchers found a chasm between the health reasons for which the public seeks out cannabis and what gold-standard science actually shows about its effectiveness. By Jan Hoffman To treat their pain, ...

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Although millions of Americans use cannabis for medical reasons, new research suggests that there is not enough evidence to support much of that medicinal use. The research, published in the Journal ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services wants to expand a Biden-era policy known as public charge that could further curtail immigrants' use of public benefits. That means that migrants' use of ...

A Rhode Island federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to distribute money owed to recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program "as soon as possible," just ...

Two federal judges said Friday that the Trump administration must tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to at least partially cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in ...

While headlines often spotlight immigrant use of government benefits, data shows non-citizens account for a small fraction of SNAP recipients and consume fewer welfare dollars per person than ...