A congressional agreement for Fiscal Year 2012 funding would provide $348 million to the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). Of that, $322.4 million would fund basic field grants for the delivery of civil legal assistance to low-income Americans. LSC is currently funded at $398.1 million under an

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, announced that the agency’s most popular online services, the applications for retirement and Medicare and for Extra Help with Medicare prescription drug costs, are now available in Spanish. The new online services are available at www.segurosocial

John G. Levi, Chairman of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), today announced the addition of five new members to the Board’s Pro Bono Task Force, which is working hard to identify best practices and innovations to enhance the involvement of private, volunteer lawyers in civil legal assistance to

Message Released by John G. Levi, Chairman, Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation: Today we honor the 24 million Americans who have served in our Armed Forces. Our men and women in uniform have sacrificed for our nation in the World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Gulf War, in

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today joined state and national veterans’ groups in seeking volunteers to assist former servicemen and servicewomen who come into contact with the criminal justice system. Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille and Justice Seamus P. McCaffery joined

The statewide process of redrawing magisterial district court boundaries began this week with the distribution of detailed instructions for the preparation of plans for every Pennsylvania community outside of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court announced. Judicial redistricting, also

“High Unemployment Period” Extended Benefits (HUP EB) are now available in Pennsylvania, the Department of Labor & Industry said on November 3. The U.S. Department of Labor recently notified the state that Pennsylvania’s total unemployment rate had reached 8.1 percent, triggering the availability of

The Legal Services Corporation will be holding the 12th Annual Technology Initiative Grants (TIG) Conference on January 11-13, 2012 in Albuquerque, NM at the Embassy Suites Albuquerque, 1000 Woodward Pl. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102. The TIG Conference is the only national event focused exclusively on