The Internal Revenue Service has announced a major expansion of its “Fresh Start” initiative to help struggling taxpayers by taking steps to provide new penalty relief to the unemployed and making Installment Agreements available to more people. Under the new Fresh Start provisions, part of a

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released a new report on how the health reform law has eliminated lifetime limits on coverage for more than 105 million Americans. Before health reform, many Americans with serious illnesses such as cancer risked hitting the lifetime limit on

The Internal Revenue Service today warned senior citizens and other taxpayers to beware of an emerging scheme tempting them to file tax returns claiming fraudulent refunds. The scheme carries a common theme of promising refunds to people who have little or no income and normally don’t have a tax

The Federal Trade Commission and more than 30 other federal agencies, consumer groups and national advocacy organizations, in conjunction with state, county, and local government agencies, are participating in National Consumer Protection Week , March 4-10, 2012. National Consumer Protection Week is

Under new regulations issued by the Department of Public Welfare, an entire family's cash assistance will be cut off if a bus breakdown or a snowstorm makes Mom late to a welfare-to-work program, even once. If a mother does not comply with welfare-to-work rules because of transportation-related

The Pennsylvania Health Law Project has released the February 2012 edition of the Senior Health News , it's free bi-monthly newsletter. Prior editions of the newsletter and more information about the Pennsylvania Health Law Project is available on their website at www.phlp.org .

Equal Justice Works is seeking highly organized legal aid organizations and organizations with strong legal services programs that have established ties to community organizations serving low-income veterans to apply to host between one (1) and four (4) AmeriCorps Legal Fellows in the 2012-2013

The Legal Services Corporation's Promotion & Provision for the Delivery of Legal Services Committee will meet March 9, 2012 at the F.William McCalpin Conference Center, Legal Services Corporation Headquarters Building, 3333 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20007. The meeting will commence at 12 p.m