Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, has announced that the agency is providing helpful health care information and website links to the more than three million individuals who apply each year for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits. The website

The February 2010 edition of Senior Health News, a free bi-monthly newsletter from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project is now available on PALawHELP.org.

Article from the Philadelphia Business Journal about funds raised and distributed by the Philadelphia Foundation's Basic Human Needs Fund through its Generous Philadelphia Campaign. Community Legal Services will receive $45,000 from the campaign for its mortgage foreclosure prevention programs, and

The 2008-2009 Annual Report of Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania (LASP) is now available from the program and on its website. Also available on the LASP website is a list of last year's individual and law firm donors and the volunteers who worked with LASP and its clients.

Editorial from the New York Times about the hiring of Laurence Tribe, the prominent Harvard Law School professor and constitutional scholar, by Attorney General Eric Holder to lead his campaign to look at ways indigent legal services can be improved.

Pennsylvania, along with 34 other states, has reached a $12 million settlement with LifeLock Inc, an Arizona-based company accused of making confusing or misleading statements in the advertisement and promotion of its identity theft protection services. The settlement includes an $11 million

Commentary in the Philadelphia Inquirer by Jonathan M. Stein and Kristen Dama of Community Legal Services about changes taking place in adultBasic, a state health-insurance program run by Pennsylvania's four Blue Cross plans. AdultBasic, which provides bare-bones coverage for people who cannot

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions today approved the nominations of three White House appointees to the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation. The three nominees are Sharon L. Browne, a principal attorney in the Pacific Legal Foundation’s Individual Rights