Disability Law News
COLA? What COLA? (12/15/2010): Recipients in all Social Security's benefit programs, including retirement, disability and SSI will be disappointed again in 2011 because of no cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for the second year in a row. Read More
JUSTICE: More Legal Help for Low-Income New Yorkers? (City newspaper - 12/15/2010) In Rochester, the Empire Justice Center and the Legal Aid Society are turning away more than half of the people seeking services, simply because they don't have the necessary staff, says Bryan Hetherington, chief counsel for Empire Justice Center. And that's with an already high level of volunteer work carried out by local attorneys. Read More
Advocates: What Cuomo Could Get Done In 100 Days (Politics on the Hudson - 12/8/2010) Good-government and environmental protection groups want Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo to issue a series of executive orders in his first 100 days as a way to get the ball rolling on changing the state. Read More
`Twilight Zone' Foreclosure Law Firm Draws Fine, Suits in New York Courts (Bloomberg - 12/8/2010) Rebecca Case-Grammatico, staff attorney at Rochester, New York-based Empire Justice Center, which represents poor people in foreclosures, said in a phone interview. A complaint in one lawsuit against Baum’s firm says it is “believed to be the largest foreclosure mill in the State of New York.” Read More
Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York Report to the Chief Judge of the State of New York (12/2/2010): There is a growing crisis in the Courts of New York State. Each year, more than 2.3 million New Yorkers try to navigate the State's complex civil justice system without a lawyer. Read More
Empire Justice Memo in Support: Support Access to Education and Training for the Poorest of New Yorkers (11/22/2010) This bill provides that four-year college can be counted as part of a public assistance recipient's work activity, and that where a recipient makes a reasonable and appropriate request to be assigned to a particular activity, that request should, where feasible, be granted. Read More
