January 2018

1/19/18

SCOTUS Blog: Relist Watch Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines Medicaid Assisted Living Programs (ALP) in NYS CBPP: Kentucky Waiver Will Harm Medicaid Beneficiaries GAO Report – Medicare Part B: Medicare Represented at Least Half of the Market for 22 of the 84 Most Expensive Drugs in 2015

1/18/18

When Food Stamps Pass As Tickets To Better Health City Tackles Roll-Out of Right to Counsel in Housing Court When an MLTC Plan Closes – What are the Members’ Rights? “Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries” (QMB) – Protections against “Balance Billing”

1/17/18

22 attorneys general file petition to block FCC decision repealing net neutrality NY Times: Making Medicaid a Tool for Moral Education May Let Some Die Justice Department will ask Supreme Court for direct review of judge’s DACA injunction Less than half of recent law grads had good jobs waiting for them after graduation, report says

1/16/18

TalkPoverty.org: How Abusers Trap Victims By Draining Their Finances CBPP: Medicaid Work Requirement Would Harm Unemployed, Not Promote Work CRL: Protect Defrauded Students, Not Bad Actors in Education Negotiated Rulemaking

1/12/18

New Job Openings Posted HRA Materials Updated New program aims to curb foreclosures, ‘zombie’ property issues in Erie County CBPP: Medicaid Work Requirement Would Harm Unemployed, Not Promote Work How robo-callers outwitted the government and completely wrecked the Do Not Call list

1/11/18

IRS private debt-collection program hurts low-income Americans How New York could change the game for its criminal defendants Trump administration opens door to let states impose Medicaid work requirements Neither gay nor straight workers can claim sex-orientation discrimination, federal judge rules Argument preview: Justices to take second look at Fair Labor Standards Act protections for …

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1/10/18

New Job Openings Posted Which Commissioner’s Designee Decided My Fair Hearing? NY state offers help to Salvadorans facing deportation Trump Must Keep DACA Protections for Now, Judge Says Annual Budget of the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) 8 states file brief supporting government attempt to deny abortions to immigrant minors

1/9/18

New Job Opening Posted NYLAG: America’s Children Which Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Will Conduct My Fair Hearing? Judge says US cannot proceed on dual criminal prosecution and deportation track with immigrants Windows Meltdown and Spectre patches: Now Microsoft blocks security updates for some AMD based PCs GAO Report – SSD – Additional Measures and Evaluation …

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