Today, Department of Human Services (DHS) Acting Secretary Meg Snead marked National Foster Care Month by encouraging older youth previously served through the foster care system to contact their county child welfare agency for help accessing aftercare services, including an option for some youth to

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) will hold four virtual workshops this week to help individuals, employers and third-party administrators prepare for next month's transition from an outdated, 40-year-old legacy system to a new modern computer system. The transition to the new UC

The Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced today that the first monthly payment of the expanded and newly-advanceable Child Tax Credit (CTC) from the American Rescue Plan will be made on July 15. Roughly 39 million households — covering 88% of children in the

The Internal Revenue Service has extended the deadline for civic-minded volunteers to apply for membership on the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP) for 2022. Taxpayers may submit a TAP application online at www.improveirs.org through June 1, 2021. The TAP is a federal advisory committee that listens to

The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation selected lawyers Donald F. Smith, a volunteer attorney at MidPenn Legal Services in Reading, and Diana K. Ingersoll, a staff attorney at MidPenn Legal Services in Altoona, as well as Ingersoll’s employer MidPenn Legal Services for 2021 Louis J. Goffman Awards. The

New FCC Program Offers Consumers Discounted Broadband Services and Computers During the COVID-19 Pandemic beginning May 12.

Regional Housing Legal Services (RHLS) Board of Directors is has announced that Dina Schlossberg, currently the RHLS Deputy Director/Senior Attorney for Multi-family Housing, will become the next Executive Director of RHLS as of August 1, 2021. The Board's announcement stated: The Board of Directors

Department of Human Services (DHS) Acting Secretary Meg Snead today issued the following statement on a ruling from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia that struck down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide moratorium on evictions established in