FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 3, 2025 CONTACT: ALASKA – In a win for vulnerable Alaskans who rely on SNAP benefits, a District Court Judge has granted the Plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction against the State of Alaska in…
Read More →Monday ruling says TennCare violated the Due Process Clause, Medicaid law and ADA protections This article was originally published in Tennessee Lookout. Read it here. Tennessee’s Medicaid safety net program unlawfully terminated coverage for thousands of Tennessee families,…
Read More →This article was originally published in The Tennessean. Read it here. Tennessee’s Medicaid program TennCare unlawfully terminated health care coverage for thousands of Tennesseans, a federal judge ruled Monday, marking the conclusion of a four-year-long class-action lawsuit. “Poor,…
Read More →More than 53,000 New Yorkers are allegedly facing delays regarding eligibility for benefits. This article was originally published in New York Focus. Read it here. Zaineb Salem was surprised to learn in April 2022 that she was no longer…
Read More →NCLEJ, Empire Justice Center sue New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance Contact:• Patrick Fowler, Communications Strategist, NCLEJ | fowler@nclej.org• Saima Akhtar, Senior Attorney, NCLEJ | akhtar@nclej.org• Susan Antos, Managing Attorney, Empire Justice Center | santos@empirejustice.org…
Read More →We need your help. The New York State Assembly is considering an important bill, S549B/A8928C that addresses New York’s harsh, punishing collection of overpayments of the state’s UI benefits resulting from the state’s mistakes administering benefits and illegal…
Read More →This article was originally published in Times Union. Read it here. New Yorkers who lost work because of the pandemic now face thousands of dollars of debt because the state is trying to collect pandemic-era benefits overpaid to…
Read More →In New York, unemployment recipients can be found guilty of fraud even if they thought their information was true. The state demands repayment at the highest rate in the country. This article was originally published in New York…
Read More →Contact for questions and comments:Jordan Berger, NCLEJ Skadden Fellow, berger@nclej.org, 646-680-8906Saima Akhtar, Senior Attorney, akhtar@nclej.org, 646-558-6152Linda Hassberg, Senior Attorney, Empire Justice Center, lhassberg@empirejustice.org, 631-533-5272 Suffolk County, NY — A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York…
Read More →by Dennis Parker, Saima Akhtar, and Sara Lunden A recent New York Times article, “How Poverty Programs Aided Children From One Generation to the Next,” looks in-depth at benefits programs in the U.S through the experiences of several…
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