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March 11, 2024
Many student loan borrowers have an opportunity to have their entire student loans cancelled or receive more credit towards cancellation, but they must act before April 30, 2024.
March 11, 2024
The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency today announced that the Pennsylvania Homeowner Assistance Fund will be reopening on Monday, March 18, 2024, to homeowners struggling as a result of pandemic-related financial hardships. PAHAF provides financial assistance to eligible homeowners for mortgage
March 11, 2024
The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is asking Congress for an appropriation of $1.8 billion in its FY 2025 budget request released today. This request reflects the minimum amount required for the legal aid providers funded by LSC to serve the eligible, low-income applicants who seek legal services
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 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 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.

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