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

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

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 .

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

Identity Theft Once Again Tops the List The Federal Trade Commission today released its list of top consumer complaints received by the agency in 2011. For the 12th year in a row, identity theft complaints topped the list. Of more than 1.8 million complaints filed in 2011, 279,156 or 15 percent

Refunds totaling more than $1 billion may be waiting for one million people who did not file a federal income tax return for 2008, the Internal Revenue Service has announced. However, to collect the money, a return for 2008 must be filed with the IRS no later than Tuesday, April 17, 2012. The IRS

The National Senior Citizens Law Center is presenting a webinar, entitled Litigating Preemption Claims after Douglas v. ILC , on March 5, 2012 at 1:00 pm Eastern. The Douglas v. ILC case raised the important issue of whether preemption under the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution can be