Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network is soliciting nominations for its 2014 Excellence Awards. This year, the awards dinner will be held on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at the Harrisburg Hilton & Towers. A social hour will take place from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, immediately followed by a buffet dinner (please

In the wake of October’s harmful government shutdown, the nation now faces another critical deadline: the looming December 31st shutdown of federal unemployment insurance for more than two million long-term unemployed workers. If Congress fails to reauthorize the federally-funded Emergency

The October 2013 issue of Senior Health News , a free bi-monthly newsletter from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project is now available. For prior editions or more information about the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, please visit their website at www.phlp.org .

The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee held its third and final Public Hearing on Civil Legal Representation of the Indigent: Have We Achieved Equal Access to Justice? on October 29, 2013 in Pittsburgh. Prior hearings were held on May 7 in Harrisburg and on May 23 in Philadelphia. All of the

The Social Security Administration has announced that monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 63 million Americans will increase 1.5 percent in 2014. The 1.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits that more than 57 million Social

During calendar year 2012, 1.1 million bankruptcy petitions were filed by individuals with primarily consumer debt. Filers had a median average monthly income of $2,743, most filed under chapter 7, and for more debtors in 2012 this was not the first time they had filed for bankruptcy. These and

The last week in October has once again been proclaimed Pro Bono Week in Pennsylvania by Governor Tom Corbett and both houses of the General Assembly. Pro Bono Week in Pennsylvania is an opportunity to highlight the difference lawyers make in their communities, to recruit and train more pro bono

The September edition of the Health Law PA News , a free bi-monthly newsletter is now available from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project.