Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, opened the agency’s fifth National Hearing Center (NHC)in St. Louis, Missouri on August 2, 2010. The St. Louis NHC is the largest in the nation and is co-located with two other new Social Security facilities -- the National Case Assistance Center

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has released its 2009 Annual Report, which recounts the founding of LSC in 1974 and its evolution into the nation's single largest funder of civil legal assistance to promote equal access to justice and to ensure the provision of high-quality civil legal aid to

Americans with Disabilities Act 20th Anniversary This month is the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This week’s message highlights how DPW supports individuals with disabilities to live independently in the community. This includes serving individuals with developmental

The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has announced that the deadline for requesting reinstatement to to active status has been extended to September 1, 2010 for attorneys that were transferred to inactive status for failure to pay the annual fee, for failure to comply with

Stronger education, training and advocacy is needed to help Pennsylvanians adopt a “zero tolerance” attitude toward domestic violence, according to a new report from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare’s Domestic Violence Task Force. The task force, formed in September 2008, was created to

The Federal Trade Commission has announced that phone numbers on the national Do Not Call Registry now exceed 200 million, and that signing up for the Registry to prevent unwanted telemarketing calls is fast, free, and easy. The Do Not Call Registry empowers consumers to take charge of the

Friends of Farmworkers, Inc. has announced that, together with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), it settled a federal harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought against a large farm growers’ cooperative. The cooperative, Knouse Foods, operates seven processing plants in three

August 31, 2010 Deadline for Legal Aid programs to apply for free copies of HotDocs Developer 10 and HotDocs User 10. From PR Web Release HotDocs Corporation today announced that it has donated over one million USD in software since the inception of its Charitable Organization Program in June 2010