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- Americans with Disabilities Act
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- Clay County
- Disability
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- Duval County
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- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Estate Planning
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- Florida
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- Green Cove Springs
- Jacksonville
- Julington Creek
- North Florida
- Orange Park
- People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
- People with Special Needs
- St. Augustine
- St. Johns County
- 6 years ago
- How much responsibility do employers have to reasonably accommodate people with disabilities when it changes the employees’ underlying job description? That question is central to the latest employment controversy surrounding America’s largest retailer, Walmart. For years, a ubiquitous fea... [read more]
Category archives: People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
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- Senior Tax Credit for the Elderly and Disabled
- Aging
- Clay County
- Duval County
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Florida
- Florida First Coast
- Green Cove Springs
- IRS
- Jacksonville
- Julington Creek
- North Florida
- Orange Park
- People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
- People with Special Needs
- Seniors
- Social Security
- Social Security Disability Insurance
- Special Needs Planning
- Special Needs Trust
- SSDI
- SSI Beneficiaries
- St. Augustine
- St. Johns County
- Tax Credit
- 6 years ago
- Low-income seniors and people with disabilities may be missing out on a tax credit that could reduce their tax liability by up to $7,500 this tax season. To qualify for the Senior Tax Credit for the Elderly and Disabled, individuals must either be above age 65 or retired early due to a qualif... [read more]
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- Care Planning
- Children with Disabilities
- Children with Special Needs
- Citizens with Disabilities
- Clay County
- Disability Rights
- Duval County
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Florida
- Florida First Coast
- Green Cove Springs
- Jacksonville
- Julington Creek
- People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
- People with Special Needs
- Special Needs Planning
- St. Augustine
- St. Johns County
- 6 years ago
- When people with disabilities and their families are considering a particular urban area, numerous factors come into play. Does the city provide accessible amenities, such as sidewalks, transportation, entertainment options, and parks? Is affordable housing available, and is this housing economical ... [read more]
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- Anti-Discrimination Laws
- Citizens with Disabilities
- Clay County
- Disability
- Disability Advocates
- Disability Discrimination
- Duval County
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Fair Housing Act
- Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
- Green Cove Springs
- Jacksonville
- Julington Creek
- National Fair Housing Alliance
- North Florida
- Orange Park
- People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
- People with Special Needs
- Social Media
- St. Augustine
- St. Johns County
- Trusts
- 6 years ago
- Facebook is changing its practices to make harder for advertisers to discriminate against people with disabilities. When businesses seek to advertise on Facebook’s platform, the social network provides tens of thousands of different categories for advertisers to target their desired audience, and... [read more]
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- ABLE Account
- ABLE Accounts
- Able Age Adjustment Act
- Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014
- Care Managers
- Care Planning
- Caregivers
- CCD
- Childhood Disabled Beneficiary Benefits
- Children
- Children with Disabilities
- Children with Special Needs
- Clay County
- Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities
- Disability
- Disability Advocates
- Elder Law
- Elderly
- Estate Planning
- Florida
- Green Cove Springs
- Jacksonville
- Medicaid Payback Provision
- NAST
- National Association of State Treasurers
- North Florida
- Orange Park
- People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
- People with Special Needs
- St. Augustine
- St. Johns County
- 6 years ago
- In the past two years, nearly every state in the country has passed legislation enabling people with disabilities and their families to open new savings accounts, modeled after popular 529 college savings plans, to save for disability related expenses. But early projections indicate that many of ... [read more]
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- 21st Century Cures Act
- Aging
- At-Home Care
- Care Managers
- Care Planning
- Caregivers
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Clay County
- Coordination of Care
- Disability
- Disability Advocates
- Disability Rights
- Duval County
- Elder Law
- Elderly
- Electronic Visit Verification
- Estate Planning
- Florida
- Green Cove Springs
- Home Health Benefits
- Home Health Care Services
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- New Year
- North Florida
- People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
- Protection for Disability
- Seniors
- St. Augustine
- St. Johns County
- 6 years ago
- Starting in 2019, providers of home health care services will be required to clock in electronically with Medicaid prior to performing services. However, disability rights advocates and a bipartisan group of senators are calling for the state-by-state rollout of these Electronic Visit Verification (... [read more]
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- Children with Disabilities
- Children with Special Needs
- Clay County
- Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates
- Department of Education
- Disability
- Disability Discrimination
- Disability Rights
- Duval County
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Florida
- Jacksonville
- NAACP
- National Federation of the Blind
- North Florida
- Orange Park
- People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
- People with Special Needs
- St. Augustine
- St. Johns County
- 6 years ago
- Each year, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) receives tens of thousands of discrimination complaints, of which disability discrimination is by far the largest category. For example, complaints can allege that students with disabilities are not being given accessible textbooks, are being denied ... [read more]
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- Disability
- Duval County
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Florida
- Green Cove Springs
- Incapacity
- Jacksonville
- North Florida
- Orange Park
- People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
- People with Special Needs
- Protection for Disability
- Providing for a Child with Special Needs
- Social Security Disability Insurance
- Social Security Income
- SSI
- St. Augustine
- St. Johns County
- 6 years ago
- As rental housing prices continue to escalate nationwide, particularly in urban centers, low-income people with disabilities are finding it increasingly difficult to find affordable housing. The Technical Assistance Collaborative and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities recently rele... [read more]
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- Children with Special Needs
- Clay County
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Disability
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Housing
- Jacksonville
- Orange Park
- people with disabilities
- People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
- People with Special Needs
- Protection for Disability
- Providing for a Child with Special Needs
- Section 8 Housing
- Social Security
- St. Augustine
- St. Johns County
- Supplemental Security Income
- 7 years ago
- People with disabilities are disproportionately low-income. Like many other marginalized communities, people with disabilities are being priced out of many neighborhoods, especially in large metropolitan centers, as rental prices continue to skyrocket and affordable housing stocks dwindle. Accord... [read more]
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- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Clay County
- Disability
- Duval County
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Government Responsibilities
- Hurricane Preparedness
- Jacksonville
- North Florida
- Orange Park
- people with disabilities
- People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
- Protection for Disability
- St. Augustine
- St. Johns County
- 7 years ago
- Hurricanes, floods and wildfires have ravaged large swaths of the U.S. this year. Every major natural disaster disproportionately harms society’s most vulnerable populations, particularly people with disabilities. Hurricane Katrina, for example, left hundreds of thousands with disabilities stran... [read more]
- 7 years ago
- New savings accounts for families of people with disabilities, known as ABLE accounts, are rapidly becoming available nationwide as programs continue to roll out on a state-by-state basis. But this new savings option, as potentially revolutionary as it is, contains many nuances and caveats, and is n... [read more]
- 7 years ago
- Special needs trusts can be an invaluable tool for families that have a child with special needs. One often overlooked aspect of a special needs trust (SNT), however, is how the trust is taxed. This consideration is important because the tax savings can be substantial depending on how the trust is ... [read more]