The National Disability Institute is a national research and development organization with the mission to promote income preservation and asset development for persons with disabilities and to build healthy financial futures for Americans with disabilities.

What's New

November 2007 - The National Disability Institute hosted the Ohio Asset Development Summit at the Embassy Suites in Dublin, Ohio. Materials from the Summit can be found in the Resource Library.

Enduring poverty and chronic underemployment for persons with disabilities mandates new strategies for building economic empowerment options for 20 million families who have at least one member with a disability. According to the 2000 Census data, 24.4 percent of people between the ages of 5 and 64 have a disability. Thirty-eight percent of working age adults with disabilities live in households with annual incomes of under $15,000 and 30 percent do not have either checking or savings accounts.