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March 8, 2024
The National Center on Law & Elder Rights is hosting a free webinar entitled Heirs Property: Legal Strategies to Keep Older Adults in the Family Home on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 from 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Eastern. Many low-income older adults reside in a home they inherited when a family member died. When
March 8, 2024
People incarcerated at six prisons across Pennsylvania have filed a class action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of solitary confinement in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The plaintiffs are represented by the Abolitionist Law Center (ALC), the Pennsylvania Institutional Law
March 8, 2024
The Pennsylvania Health Law Project and the Achieva Family Trust are hosting a webinar titled Understanding Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waivers for People With Disabilities from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Eastern on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. In this webinar, PHLP’s Janice Meinert will cover introductory
March 7, 2024
Lt. Gov. Austin Davis visited the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank today to emphasize how the Shapiro-Davis budget proposal would care for our most vulnerable Pennsylvanians and help feed seniors, people with disabilities and children. “We can’t thrive as a Commonwealth if we are not caring
March 4, 2024
The Pennsylvania Health Law Project is hosting a free webinar entitled Medicaid & Social Security Benefits for Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities on March 26, 2024 from 9:30 AM-11:30 AM Eastern.
March 1, 2024
North Penn Legal Services (NPLS), in partnership with Educational Opportunities Centers of PA , is presenting a free Expungement and Clean Slate Clinic at the Mohegan Pennsylvania Convention Center in Wilkes-Barra, PA on March 12, 2024. The clinic will be held at Mohegan Pennsylvania Convention
March 1, 2024
The Pennsylvania Health Law Project has published the March 1, 2024 edition of PHLP Health Law News . You can subscribe to receive the PHLP Health Law News on the PHLP website at www.phlp.org. This edition features the following articles: PHLP's Janice Meinert to Receive 202 PLAN Excellence Award
February 28, 2024
The Department of Revenue is providing additional in-person assistance through more than 100 events across the Commonwealth following Governor Josh Shapiro’s work to expand the Property Tax/Rent Rebate Program.

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