The Legal Services Corporation has announced that Philadelphia Legal Assistance is one of the 11 legal aid organizations selected to receive grants from its new Pro Bono Innovation Fund to support projects that develop replicable innovations in pro bono services for low-income clients. The

Associate Attorney General Tony West, Assistant Attorney General Stuart F. Delery for the Civil Division and members of the Department’s Elder Justice Initiative met with stakeholders in the field of elder abuse and financial exploitation on September 8, 2014 to launch the Elder Justice website in

The statewide Loan Repayment Assistance Program ("LRAP") begins its fifth year of helping attorneys employed in IOLTA-funded civil legal services organizations better manage their undergraduate and law school debt on September 2, 2014, albeit with significant changes in the program. The LRAP is a

Award Honors Efforts Providing Veterans with Permanent Supportive Housing The Departments of Aging and Public Welfare, along with the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA), have announced that individuals and organizations that are creating permanent supportive housing opportunities for

This provides a list of links containing information on the approval of the Healthy Pennsylvania Program by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that will extend Medicaid coverage to nearly 600,000 uninsured Pennsylvanians.

The Pennsylvania Health Law Project released the following statement on August 28, 2014 regarding the Approval of the Healthy Pennsylvania Plan to expand Medicaid: On behalf of our clients, the Pennsylvania Health Law Project (PHLP) welcomes today’s announcement that Pennsylvania will soon expand

Governor Tom Corbett has made an historic announcement that the state has secured agreement with the federal government to implement the portion of his Healthy Pennsylvania plan that will improve and bring financial stability to the state’s Medicaid program so that the state can increase access to

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has announced that borrowers who prepay their FHA-insured mortgages will not have to make interest payments beyond the date their mortgage is paid in full. FHA’s rule, Handling Prepayments: Eliminating Post-Payment Interest Charges, applies for FHA-insured