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3/7/14

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Mar 072014

 

• Doe v. Overfield Proposed Class Action Settlement
• Nationstar Mortgage-Servicing Growth Probed by Lawsky
• NY Times: Pitfalls Seen in a Turn to Privately Run Long-Term Care
• Keeping Medicaid after Cash Public Assistance or SSI Benefits Are Terminated (Updated)

3/6/14

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Mar 062014

 

• CFPB: Credit reporting complaint snapshot
• New York State Coalition Asks For More Family Court Judges
• GAO Report – Medicare: Contractors and Private Plans Play a Major Role in Administering Benefits
• Spousal Impoverishment Protections Available in Managed Long Term Care and other “Waiver” Programs (Updated)

3/5/14

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Mar 052014

 

• New Job Opening Posted
• WIC: Income Eligibility Guidelines
• Many New Yorkers living in foreclosure limbo
• Obama Budget Would Extend EITC’s Pro-Work Success to Childless Workers
• Opinion analysis: Justices stick with Bankruptcy Code text, rejecting Ninth Circuit’s creative punishment of lying bankrupt
• HRA Corrects Illegal Practice of Denying “Spousal Impoverishment” Income Allowance to Some Spouses of Nursing Home Residents

3/4/14

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Mar 042014

 

• States consider changes to juvenile justice laws
• Characteristics of Families Receiving Multiple Public Benefits
• The Forgotten History Of The Congressman Who Sacrificed His Life To Fight Homelessness
• Dental and Orthodontic Services to be Included in the Medicaid Managed Care Benefit Package

3/3/14

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Mar 032014

 

• New Job Opening Posted
• House Passes Bill Limiting CFPB
• Now you have better options to dispute a credit report error
• Fair Housing Group Goes After Banks Failing to Maintain REO

2/28/14

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Feb 282014

 

• Medical Care Can Be “Lost in Translation”
• CBPP: We’re protecting students from predatory lending
• CBO Report: Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014
• NY Times: A Nonprofit Lender Revives the Hopes of Subprime Borrowers

2/27/14

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Feb 272014

 

• Should inmates hit college books?
• The Justice Index – Measuring Access to Justice
• Tiny houses help address nation’s homeless problem
• Elizabeth Warren: Sallie Mae May Be Hurting Borrowers, Taxpayers

2/26/14

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Feb 262014

 

• New Job Openings Posted
• IOLA Meeting – March 12, 2014
• The Medicaid Buy-In for Working People With Disabilities (MBI-WPD) (Updated)
• Empire Justice Memo of Support: Ensure that Welfare Recipients are Not Punished for Being Disabled
• Governor Cuomo Announces New York State Will Preserve $457 Million in Snap Benefits for 300,000 Households