LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska will become one of the nation’s first states to offer special tax-free savings accounts to people with disabilities.

The state is set to launch its Enable Savings Plan on June 30. The plan allows adults with disabilities and their families to save as much as $100,000 without losing Social Security benefits.

Supporters say the plans will help them save for medical, housing and educational needs. Under previous state law, adults with disabilities could lose Medicaid coverage and Social Security if they accumulated more than $2,000 in assets.

State Treasurer Don Stenberg says Ohio and Tennessee launched similar accounts earlier this month, but Nebraska’s is among the first. Residents from other states can also sign up for Nebraska’s plan.

First National Bank of Omaha will manage the program.

CHICAGO (AP) — A new report says nearly 12 million Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for an opioid painkiller last year at a cost of $4.1 billion. Federal data show how common the addictive drugs are in many older Americans’ medicine cabinets.

With an overdose epidemic worsening, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for commonly abused opioids such as OxyContin and fentanyl in 2015. Those who did received an average of five such prescriptions or refills.

The report was released Wednesday to The Associated Press by the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Medicare spokesman Aaron Albright says agency officials are reviewing the report closely.

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska grand jury has cleared officers involved in a chase that led to the death of a South Dakota woman.

The Dawes County jury said officers broke no laws in the Feb. 23 chase that ended with a collision between a police cruiser and the vehicle being pursued. Thirty-four-year-old Kerry Peters, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, died at the scene. Two of her passengers and a tribal police officer were injured.

Authorities have said Peters refused to pull over near Oelrichs (OHL’-rihks), South Dakota, and led pursuing officers into Dawes County. Authorities say Peters made a sudden U-turn, striking a police cruiser.

Nebraska law requires a grand jury investigation whenever a person dies while in custody or in the process of being arrested.

A North Platte woman is facing charges after she allegedly assaulted her husband and scuffled with police.

At around 10:50 p.m., on June 20, officers responded to the report of a domestic assault in the 200 block of Baytree Avenue.

Officers met with a male victim who alleged that his wife, 35-year-old Holly Larsen, had hit him in the face after he confronted her about drinking alcohol.

According to Investigator John Deal, the victim had an injury to his eye which was consistent with the his account.

Larsen was placed under arrest and charged with 3rd-degree domestic assault.

As officers attempted to place her in handcuffs, Larsen allegedly began kicking at them.  According to reports, Larsen nearly struck one officer in the groin, but narrowly missed.

As a result, she was also charged with resisting arrest.  Additionally, Deal said the couple’s small child was present during the assault, which resulted is a misdemeanor child abuse charge.

Larsen was jailed at the Lincoln County Detention Center.