The following statement was issued by Brian A. Hudson, Sr., Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency on June 30, 2011: The HEMAP Program has received an appropriation of $2 million in the State Budget for the upcoming fiscal year (2011/2012). The Agency has determined that this

On Tuesday, July 19, at 2:00 p.m. EST, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty will host a webinar to discuss topics explored in its report, "Simply Unacceptable": Homelessness and the Human Right to Housing in the U.S. The webinar will be facilitated by the report's primary author, Eric

Fast Track Disability Process Will Now Look at 100 Conditions Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, has announced 12 additional Compassionate Allowances conditions involving severe heart diseases, bringing the total number of conditions in the expedited disability process to 100

The Internal Revenue Service encourages taxpayers to guard against being misled by unscrupulous individuals trying to persuade them to file false claims for tax credits or rebates. The IRS has noted an increase in tax-return-related scams, frequently involving unsuspecting taxpayers who normally do

This story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette features comments from Sam Milkes , Executive Director of PLAN , about the 10 percent decrease in general state funding for legal services in Pennsylvania. Milkes described the next year as, "right there with one of the most challenging years we've

This article from Mother Jones describes the possible effects of the House Appropriations Committee proposal to cut $104 Million from legal aid. If the proposed cuts do take effect, the Legal Services Corporation estimates that 235,000 people eligible for help will be turned away.

Representatives of the federal judiciary are inviting civil legal aid attorneys to participate in a project to develop the Next Generation Case Management/Electronic Case Files system. Electronic filing and docket management have revolutionized the federal court system, and the judiciary is

Cynthia Schneider, Deputy Director of the Legal Services Corporation Office of Program Performance (OPP), is retiring. One of Ms. Schneider’s many duties as Deputy Director was to oversee the scheduling of OPP’s on-site program reviews and to work with staff preparing for the visits. OPP’s on-site