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2/6/18

New Job Openings Posted Old laws, new technology and national borders: In Plain English Heads Up – Changes Coming in Fair Hearing Rights for MLTC and Managed Care Members – April 2018 GAO Report – Medicaid Assisted Living Services: Improved Federal Oversight of Beneficiary Health and Welfare is Needed

2/5/18

Who’s Able-Bodied Anyway? CMS to Allow Non-Skilled Home Care Benefit in Medicare Advantage Would an overhaul of federal student-loan programs help bring down law school tuition? DOJ Closes Obama-Era Office Providing Assistance to Citizens Who Couldn’t Afford Lawyers

2/2/18

New Job Openings Posted How Voters With Disabilities Are Blocked From the Ballot Box Trump’s interim CFPB chief shifts enforcement power in lending bias cases SCOTUS Blog – Academic highlight: The debate over nationwide injunctions CBPP: How Medicaid Work Requirements Will Harm People With Disabilities and Serious Illnesses

2/1/18

Court of Appeals reverses earlier ruling, declares CFPB constitutional Summary of Formal Requests for Reconsideration or Rehearing of Administrative Appeals Immigration, access to justice and homeless youth among topics on tap at ABA Midyear Meeting

1/31/18

New Job Openings Posted Chief Judge Lauds New York for Legal Representation of Low-Income People Open-Ended Remands in Medicaid-Related Fair Hearing Decisions Violate Federal Law Grievance and Appeal Contacts for Managed Long Term Care Plans 9th Circuit finds juvenile facing deportation has no right to free lawyer After Post-Trump Decline, More Central American Children Arriving …

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1/30/18

Equal justice — for those who can afford it Ginsburg, Gorsuch Don’t Play Well Together New website tool aims to help compensate survivors of domestic violence 30,000 NYS Residents Age 65+ May Lose Medicaid If They Do Not Apply to Enroll in Medicare – 4000 Upstate Already Discontinued

1/29/18

Traveling lawyers get new protections in device searches at border As Trump Attacks the Federal Health Law, Some States Try to Shore it Up Draft Executive Order On Immigrant Access To Government Benefits And On Immigrant Sponsors

1/26/18

Where the Work-for-Welfare Movement is Heading Life After TANF in Kansas: For Most, Unsteady Work and Earnings Below Half the Poverty Line