PLAN Board member Yvette Long was presented with the prestigious Mary Ellen Hamilton Award by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association at its awards luncheon during the NLADA Annual Conference on November 12, 2010. The Mary Ellen Hamilton Award , given biennially, honors a legal services

The Pennsylvania Bar Association and 33 local bar associations across the state are launching a credit rights public education campaign and offering a free brochure, Know Your Credit Rights - Be an Educated Credit Consumer , that includes details about the new rules and a number of other credit

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's continuing investment in early childhood education is providing a strong foundation for young children to start school ready to learn and boosting the academic success of at-risk children, according to the Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts year-end report released today by

The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Housing and Consumer Law Groups are hosting a CLE training program entitled Legal Aid Attorney Guide to Collecting Attorney Fees in Consumer Cases. The program was originally presented in Philadelphia on November 22 and will be presented in Pittsburgh on December 3

Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for more than 58 million Americans will not automatically increase in 2011, the Social Security Administration announced on October 15. The Social Security Act provides for an automatic increase in Social Security and SSI

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced that it is offering $35 million to public housing authorities to develop facilities that will provide early childhood and adult education, and/or job training programs for public housing residents. The new Capital Fund

The Pennsylvania Health Law Project will be conducting trainings in Southwestern and Southeastern PA on Medicare 2011. January 2011 brings Part D changes as well as other changes to the Medicare program as a result of Health Care Reform. Come to one of these trainings to learn about these topics and

Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced that Pennsylvania has joined a multi-state working group probing questionable mortgage foreclosure activity. Corbett said that Attorneys General from 49 states, along with banking and mortgage regulators from 37 states, have agreed to coordinate their