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NCLEJ Report on Barriers Childless Adults Face in Accessing Public Health Insurance

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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NCLEJ Sues Nassau County NY For Delaying Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Cash Public Assistance to Hundreds Each Month

NCLEJ and the Empire Justice Center achieved a revised settlement in January 2015 in a case before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York challenging Nassau County’s unlawful practice of delaying food stamp,…

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NCLEJ Reports on Barriers Childless Adults Face in Accessing Public Health Insurance

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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NCLEJ Sues Nassau County for Delaying Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Cash Public Assistance to Hundreds Each Month

NCLEJ and the Empire Justice Center achieved a revised settlement in January 2015 in a case before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York challenging Nassau County’s unlawful practice of delaying food stamp,…

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NCLEJ Celbrates 40th Anniversary of Goldberg v. Kelly, Landmark Supreme Court Victory

The Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970), on March 23, 1970 – forty years ago – in a case brought by the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (then…

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NCLEJ Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Goldberg v. Kelly, Landmark Supreme Court Victory

The Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970), on March 23, 1970 – forty years ago – in a case brought by the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (then…

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Cary LaCheen’s Article on Improving Communication between Public Benefits Agencies and Persons with Hearing Difficulties Is Published in Clearinghouse Review

Find the article here (pdf).

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Improving Remote Communication Between Public Benefits Agencies and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals

by Cary LaCheen, Clearinghouse Review (Jan-Feb 2010)

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NCLEJ Sues New Hampshire for Failing to Pay Full Medical Costs

Capps v. Toumpas challenges New Hampshire’s policy of refusing to reimburse Medicaid recipients who receive Medicaid through the Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled program for the full amount of their prescription medication expenses incurred from the…

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Lawsuit Causes FEMA to Disgorge Documents on Accessible Temporary Housing

In January 2010, after a long delay, FEMA released 700 pages of materials to NCLEJ which NCLEJ had requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in March 2009. FEMA only released the material after NCLEJ, represented by…

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