Editorial Policy

Official Sources Only

Rules, deadlines, eligibility tests and dollar amounts come only from the agencies that run the programs and the official text of the law:

• the Social Security Administration (ssa.gov, its operations manual and its yearly figures);
• the Department of Veterans Affairs (va.gov rate tables and claim pages);
• federal regulations on the eCFR, including VA's rating schedule and SSA's Listing of Impairments;
• state agencies for state disability insurance, Medicaid, vocational rehabilitation, ABLE programs and parking placards;
• other federal agencies, such as CMS, the IRS, the Department of Justice (ada.gov), the EEOC, the Department of Education and HUD.

Forums, law-firm marketing, other benefit websites and personal stories are never used as sources. Every yearly figure shows its year, and the methodology explains how those figures are dated and refreshed.

General Information, Not Individual Advice

Pages explain how the programs work and what the rules say. They don't tell any one person what to do with their claim, and they never promise approval, an amount or a timeline. Only SSA, VA or a state agency can decide a claim. Where a decision depends on your own facts, pages point you to official help: SSA, VA-accredited representatives and veterans service organizations (which help for free), your state's protection and advocacy agency, and your state's vocational rehabilitation agency. The about page lists each one.

Respectful, Plain Language

• Pages talk to you directly, in short sentences, for someone reading on a phone.
• Disability is described accurately and without pity. Pages don't use words like "suffers from," "victim of" or "wheelchair-bound."
• Official program terms, such as "substantial gainful activity" or "individual unemployability," are kept because you'll see them on agency letters, and each is explained the first time it appears.
• Pages state what a rule is and its limit once, without piling on hedges or scare language.

What Every Page Goes Through Before Publishing

• It answers its main question near the top, with the source and date.
• Each fact is recorded with the official page it came from, and automated checks confirm that every dollar figure traces to those records.
• Automated checks confirm that internal links work and that the yearly figures aren't out of date.
• It is reviewed for accuracy and clarity by Michael Rupe, U.S. Air Force veteran, with particular attention to VA content.

How Corrections Work

A page is corrected when an official source shows it is wrong or out of date. The correction fixes the detail, cites the supporting source and updates the page's review date. To report an error, use the contact form with the page address and, if you can, the official page that shows the right detail.

Independence From Advertisers

The site is paid for by display ads from Google AdSense. Google chooses the ads; the site doesn't pick advertisers, and advertisers never see pages before they go live or have any say in what they say. Ads never decide which topics are covered, which programs are explained or what a tool's result shows. The advertising disclosure covers where ads appear.

How Paid Offers Would Be Labelled

A sponsored offer may be added later on some Social Security benefit pages. If it is, it will sit in its own box labelled as sponsored, with a disclosure line, below the page's answer and never inside a tool, a table or an answer. Its links are marked as sponsored for search engines. A sponsor never shapes a page's facts, and sponsored content is never presented as a recommendation.

Who Is Responsible

Disability Help is published by Rupe Enterprises LLC. Neither the publisher nor the reviewer gives legal advice or represents anyone before SSA or VA. For your own claim, go to ssa.gov/disability or va.gov/disability.