The money also will help build 200 new homes for veterans with the worst disabilities, mostly triple or quadruple amputees.
Since 1996, kindergartens are eligible to receive a double normative grant for each child with a speech based need or mild mental disability, and a triple grant for each child with a physical or sensory disability, autism, or moderate to severe disabilities.
By the end of 2016, ZestFinance is aiming to triple its number of employees with disabilities.
When women do have a disability they face double, if not triple, discrimination: for having a disability, being women and living in poverty.
Researchers at the thinktank Demos last year observed that 120,000 faced a "triple whammy" of losing a number of core disability benefits all at once; 99,000 would see cuts to four benefits at once.
Spending on disability benefits for veterans has almost tripled since 2000, to $54 billion a year.
The triple-whammy of injury, unemployment and waiting for disability claims to be processed has forced many veterans into foreclosure, or sent them teetering on its edge, according to veterans' organizations.
Over the last four decades, the number of Americans drawing Social Security disability insurance has more or less tripled, by some estimates.
This should focus on various disabilities that create double or even triple exclusion for some children, particularly girls.
The fraction of prime-age men on disability benefits, for instance, has more than tripled from 1.5% in 1970 to 4.9%.
