August 2014

8/29/14

AG Goes After More Mortgage Relief Firms Hearings on Civil Legal Services to Start Sept. 22 Bank of America Settlement and the Need for Legal Aid Lawyers KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Managed Long Term Care – Fact Sheets New Republic: You Thought the Mortgage Crisis Was Over? It’s About to Flare Up Again

8/28/14

New Job Openings Posted Legal aid funding for Mississippi’s poor declining Access to Health Care for People with Disabilities CFPB: Working together to protect student veterans Thousands in Texas Lose Cars Amid Calls for Loan Restrictions Jacksonville to cut Legal Aid staff, cut funds for legal services to poor

8/27/14

‘Poor Door’ in Tower Opens a Housing Fight Thousands of Electronic Case Files Lost in Transition New FICO Model May Not Help Home Buyers Anytime Soon

8/26/14

New Job Openings Posted Ferguson, Other U.S. Suburbs See Poverty Rise CFPB Takes Action Against Global Client Solutions for Processing Illegal Debt-Settlement Fees CBPP: IRS Commissioner Confirms House-Passed Cuts to IRS Budget Could Be “Catastrophic”

8/25/14

Homeless LGBTQ Youth Hiring Bias Against the Unemployed: Should There Be a Law? TANF at 18: A Weakened Role and Not a Model for Safety Net Reform The Poverty of Relentless Disappointment: Rich Hill and a Vanishing American Dream Some homeowners could get hit with a whopping tax bill if they accept help through Bank …

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8/22/14

New Job Openings Posted States Fill Federal Vacuum on Immigrants Test of gap in veterans’ benefits for same-sex marriages Welfare Rules Databook: State TANF Policies as of July 2013 Subprime Auto Lender Fined $2.75M For Providing Inaccurate Information To Credit Agencies

8/21/14

SNAP’s Excess Medical Expense Deduction Law School Begins: Here’s A Message to the New Crop of 1L’s Empire Justice Comments to OTDA on the 2014 -15 HEAP State Plan Bank of America Expected to Settle Huge Mortgage Case for $16.65 Billion Is ActiveHours A True Payday Loan Alternative Or Just Another Too-Good-To-Be-True Letdown?

8/20/14

Why Do Pro Bono? Bill Lienhard, Volunteers of Legal Service In Rural States ‘Pastoral Counselors’ Help Fill Mental Health Gap CFPB Issues Bulletin to Prevent Runarounds in Mortgage Servicing Transfers The Economic Opportunity Act, 50 Years Later: We Need Renewed Presidential Leadership