The National Employment Law Project will be presenting a free webinar entitled Collecting Unpaid Wages on Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 1:00 pm Eastern. Workers who have obtained a legal judgment in their favor for unpaid wages and penalties often face another obstacle -- collecting the money due to

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced awards totaling approximately $176.4 million to 40 state workforce agencies for Unemployment Insurance program integrity, performance and system improvement projects. Pennsylvania was among the states receiving awards to support program integrity. The grant

​The Sargent Shiver National Center on Poverty Law will be holding a webinar entitled, Encouraging Savings: How Hawaii and Illinois Eliminated their TANF Asset Tests, on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 from 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern. The webinar will feature advocates from Hawaii and Illinois who led

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry has established www.JobGateway.pa.gov as the job-matching web site where UC claimants will go to register for work search. Work search is a requirement of receiving UC benefits and a recently approved a regulation requires claimants to register on

The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, the ACLU, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, and the Illinois Asset Building Group will cosponsor a webinar exploring criminal defendant/prisoner debt in the U.S. and its effects on reentry and asset building opportunities. The webinar

The National Consumer Law Center and the National Senior Citizens Law Center are presenting a webinar entitled, "Fugitive Felons": Clark v. Astrue Implementation for SSI & Social Security and Similar Provisions in Other Benefit Programs, on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm. The

Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille said today that rules adopted by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 2012 are again paying big dividends in helping provide legal services for low income Pennsylvanians. A civil procedure rule that took effect July 1, 2012, directed how money left

The Practising Law Institute is offering a free webcast of a presentation being offered live in San Francisco entitled Bankruptcy Basics for Low-Income Clients 2013 on September 26, 2013 at 12:00 pm Eastern. This program is designed for for attorneys, paralegals and legal assistants.