Thousands of senior citizens and persons with disabilities will soon be able to find affordable housing, thanks to more than $550 million in housing assistance announced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The funding will provide interest-free capital advances to non

Although the FY10-11 Budget has been signed, it includes $850 million in federal matching funds (FMAP) for Medical Assistance that needs Congressional approval. Failure of Congress to provide this funding will have significant impacts on Pennsylvania’s budget, which could include cuts to human

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) will implement recommendations of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to improve internal controls over grant awards, LSC President Victor M. Fortuno said in a statement on July 13, 2010. In its report, Legal Services Corporation: Improvements Needed in

Budget Cuts to Date are Modest This week the Governor signed the FY10-11 Budget into law. Every part of DPW will see some reduction, but for the most part these reductions are modest—in many cases, less than one percent—viewed in the context of the economy as a whole and the dramatic cuts many other

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has announced plans to develop a fully automated, online system for handling Veterans’ disability compensation claims. More than a simple digitization of existing paper-based claims, the new system is part of VA’s modernization of the end-to-end

This story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, about the shift of Social Security payments exclusively to direct deposits, features comments from Attorney Catherine Martin of Neighborhood Legal Services Association regarding potential problems that arise when accounts receiving such direct deposits

Thousands of Philadelphia senior citizens living on limited incomes could receive help paying for nutritious food under a pilot project involving federal, state and local partners, Pennsylvania Secretary of Public Welfare Harriet Dichter announced today. “Many older adults are struggling to buy

This story on Law.com (from The Legal Intelligencer) describes a new statewide school loan repayment program launched by the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation and the Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyers Trust Account Board, designed to ease the financial burden on recent law school graduates in hopes of