The Pennsylvania Health Law Project has published the September 2020 edition of Health Law News . You can subscribe to receive the PHLP Health Law News on the PHLP website at www.phlp.org . This edition features the following articles: MAWD Premium Increases On Hold During COVID-19 Barriers to COVID

The Internal Revenue Service has posted final regulations for Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) accounts to IRS.gov. The regulations finalize two previously issued proposed regulations. The first proposed regulation was published in 2015 after the enactment of the ABLE Act. The second

America has a civil justice gap. The difference between the number of Americans who need civil legal assistance and the few who receive it is big and getting bigger. According to one recent study, low-income Americans received adequate legal attention for only 14 percent of the civil problems they

The Social Security Administration and its Office of the Inspector General announced four new Cooperative Disability Investigations (CDI) Units opened across the country. CDI Units identify, investigate, and prevent Social Security disability fraud, and are a very successful part of the agency’s

‘Operation Corrupt Collector’ targets phantom debt collectors trying to collect on non-existent debts, using illegal scare tactics

Join Julia Simon-Mishel , Philadelphia Legal Assistance, Andrew Stettner , The Century Foundation, and Michele Evermore , National Employment Law Project, for a webinar entitled Centering Workers—How to Modernize Unemployment Insurance Technology , as they share highlights from their soon-to-be

Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, Inc. is now accepting applications for its 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Internship Program . The program is open to 1Ls and 2Ls. Applicants must be open to statewide placement and provide their own transportation and housing. However, our in-person internships may be

The Department of Labor & Industry's (L&I) Office of Unemployment Compensation (UC) has updated its UC Live Chat feature to include a virtual assistant to provide immediate assistance in general questions and guidance on UC-related information. In addition, UC has expanded access so that employers