The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) submitted its budget reequest to Congress on February 2, 2015, asking for for $486.9 million for Fiscal Year 2016, approximately the same level of funding requested for the past two years.

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has issued a Request for Letters of Intent to Apply for 2015 Grant Funding describing the conditions for submitting Letters of Intent to Apply for 2015 funding under the Pro Bono Innovation Fund . The Pro Bono Innovation Fund is LSC’s newest competitive grant

U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro has awarded $1.8 billion in grants to help nearly 8,400 local homeless housing and service programs across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Continuum of Care grants announced support the Administration’s

The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law will be holding a free webinar for housing advocates entitled Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Post-PTFA on Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from 4:00 pm-5:00 pm Eastern.

Two women’s health organizations and a private citizen have filed a federal class action claiming that the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) is unlawfully delaying the enrollment of tens of thousands of Pennsylvania women into comprehensive Medicaid coverage for which they qualified

Community Legal Services, Inc. (CLS) has filed a second class action lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS, formerly the Department of Public Welfare). This suit was filed on behalf of approximately 200,000 low-income Pennsylvanians whose Medicaid benefits have been or

The December 2014 edition of the Health Law PA News has been released by the Pennsylvania Health Law Project. Health Law PA News is a free newsletter of the Project that is published monthly. For prior editions or more information about the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, please visit their website

The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network (PLAN) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Excellence Awards. The statewide awards for excellence will be presented at the PLAN Excellence Awards banquet on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, at the Harrisburg Hilton. A social hour