NCLEJ’s comments address issues such as assuring that the exchanges and their services are accessible to individuals with low literacy, individuals with disabilities, limited English speakers, and lawfully present immigrants in mixed status families. NCLEJ also recommends that…
Read More →After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, thousands of displaced persons with disabilities were left stranded in shelters, forced into institutions, and given trailers without ramps, with inaccessible bathrooms, inadequate room to maneuver wheelchairs, and other accessibility barriers…
Read More →NCLEJ and Maximus have issued Modernizing Public Benefits Programs: What the Law Says State Agencies Must do to Serve People with Disabilities. The pamphlet, adapted from NCLEJ materials, discusses the legal obligation to make agency websites accessible to…
Read More →State public benefits agencies increasingly rely on their website as a means of providing information to the public, and as a means of applying for Medicaid, Food Stamps, and cash assistance. Cary LaCheen’s new report, discussing the findings…
Read More →The Summer 2010 issue of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy contains an essay based on Laura’s Redman’s 2008 presentation describing the barriers low income LGBT individuals and families confront in seeking access to Medicaid and…
Read More →State public benefits agencies increasingly rely on their website as a means of providing information to the public, and as a means of applying for Medicaid, Food Stamps, and cash assistance. Cary LaCheen’s new report, discussing the findings…
Read More →Jennifer Selendy, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis; Douglas F. Curtis, a partner at WilmerHale, and Cassandra Barham, a respected advocate from Ohio, have been chosen to serve as Chair and Vice-Chairs, respectively, of NCLEJ’s Board of Directors….
Read More →Pfizer Senior Vice President and General Counsel Amy Schulman; HHS Administration for Children and Families Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Mark Greenberg; and the Homeless Persons Representation Project, Public Justice Center, and the law firm of Kirkland &…
Read More →In Griego v. New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Commission, the state trial court initially denied a motion to dismiss and ruled that a severely injured New Mexico farmworker and two groups that represent farm and ranch laborers may pursue…
Read More →Childless Adults: Barriers to Enrollment in Public Health Insurance (pdf) is a qualitative study of uninsured New Yorkers who are eligible for public coverage but are not enrolled. Beyond its groundbreaking work exploring the specific barriers faced by…
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