The National Senior Citizens Law Center will be presenting a webinar entitled, Improving the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program for Dual Eligibles, on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 from 2:00 pm -3:00 pm Eastern. The Qualified Medicare Benefit (QMB) was created to give low income people with

Lawyers have a long tradition of providing pro bono services to Americans in need of legal assistance. For the third successive year, the American Bar Association is coordinating a national strategy to recognize pro bono work done by lawyers every day during its Celebrate Pro Bono Week, October 23

The National Legal Aid and Defender Association will award thirty scholarships for new attorneys to attend the NLADA Centennial Conference to be held at the Washington Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC on December 7-10, 2011. The scholarships will cover the cost of registration and hotel cost

This article in the York Daily Record discusses the expungement of an eight-year old murder charge from the criminal record of a woman represented by MidPenn Legal Services, who represented her under its Barriers to Employment Project. The woman was charged and held for nine months without bail only

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis has announced an innovative partnership that leverages the combined audience and expertise of officials from the U.S. Department of Labor, Facebook, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, DirectEmployers Association and the National Association of

The Administration on Aging announced on October 13, 2011 that it will award nearly $200,000 to the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA) to establish a new National Adult Protective Services Resource Center to serve as a knowledge base for the fight against elder abuse. States and

Cost-of-Living Adjustment is First Since 2009 Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for more than 60 million Americans will increase 3.6 percent in 2012, the Social Security Administration announced on October 19.. The 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA)

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced 13 new Compassionate Allowances conditions involving the immune system and neurological disorders. The Compassionate Allowances program fast-tracks disability decisions to ensure that Americans with the most serious disabilities