NCLEJ takes action to protect health care for low-income and immigrant communities. We submitted comments opposing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposed rule that would limit low-income families’ ability to obtain health coverage through the Affordable…
Read More →NCLEJ has joined advocates from Legal Services of South Central Michigan and the Michigan Poverty Law Program as co-counsel in Waskul v. Washtenaw County Community Mental Health, a federal court appeal challenging county budget cuts in the State…
Read More →By Marc Cohan, Executive Director, National Center for Law and Economic Justice Twenty years ago then President Clinton signed the so-called “welfare reform” law. The legislation was a comprehensive and far-reaching effort to eliminate welfare as this nation…
Read More →Low-income New Hampshire families with a child with a disability won a major victory on August 2, 2016, when the New Hampshire Supreme Court struck down a rule requiring that the child’s Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits…
Read More →It has been 20 years this month since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which established the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, was enacted. Marking this anniversary, NCLEJ Executive Director Marc Cohan…
Read More →On March 4, 2016, the U.S. District Court issued an important decision in Fishman v. Daines in favor of low-income elderly and disabled New York Medicaid recipients who seek fair hearings to challenge New York State’s termination of…
Read More →In a victory for New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) tenants with asthma who have mold in their apartments, Judge William H. Pauley III of the Southern District of New York issued an order on December 15, 2015…
Read More →On October 15, 2015, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important decision in favor of low-income elderly and disabled New York Medicaid recipients who seek fair hearings to challenge New York State’s termination of their…
Read More →Senior Attorney Greg Bass conducted two recent webinars on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). On August 13th, he conducted a webinar for legal services and disability rights advocates in Georgia on using the ADA on behalf of…
Read More →As a result of a federal class action settlement in Rafferty v. Doar, New York City and State agencies will begin providing information about food stamps and Medicaid in a variety of alternate formats that are accessible to…
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