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1. Disability Rights Consortium at Equip for Equality - SNAP (The Food Stamp Program)
   Information for people with disabilities on qualifying for SNAP benefits.
   Presenter(s): Equip for Equality - Northeastern Illinois Office
   Updated: 12/07/2012
2. The Illinois SNAP/Food Stamps Calculator
   This calculator should be used by legal professionals to help their clients estimate SNAP/food stamp benefits
   Author: Illinois Legal Aid Online
   Updated: 10/01/2012
3. Senior Citizens Handbook - Financial Assistance: Emergency Help
   Describes the types of emergency financial help available to senior citizens, including emergency food stamps, and emergency needs for rent, utilities, clothes, medical care, and other basic essentials
   Author: Prairie State Legal Services
   Updated: 09/27/2012
4. Benefits for Illinois Veterans
   Includes guidelines for determining eligibility for benefits, benefits that are available to disabled veterans and their families, how to apply for benefits, how to appeal, and general help with problems surrounding benefits.
   Author: Illinois Attorney General
   Updated: 08/03/2012
5. Disability Rights Consortium at Equip for Equality: Special Needs Trusts
   Information about special needs trusts for people with disabilities.
   Presenter(s): Equip for Equality - Northeastern Illinois Office
   Updated: 06/18/2012
6. Social Security Disability and Retirement
   This manual is an overview of the issues encountered by advocates representing clients trying to or receiving SSDI.
   Author: Revisions contributed by, Katie Shelton, LAF
   Updated: 04/16/2012
7. Disabilities Guidebook: Social Security Disability Benefits (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
   Describes your rights to social security disability benefits and supplemental security income.
   Author: Prairie State Legal Services
   Updated: 01/26/2012
8. Senior Citizens Handbook - Financial Assistance: Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
   Provides information about SSI, how to become eligible and avoid denial and termination of benefits.
   Author: Prairie State Legal Services
   Updated: 01/19/2012
9. Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents
   Provides information on the various veterans benefits programs
   Author: Department of Veterans Affairs
   Updated: 01/06/2012
10. Minor Guardianship and the Illinois Probate Act
    An overview of the types of minor guardianship, focusing on the Probate Act.
    Author: Chicago Volunteer Legal Services
    Updated: 10/20/2011
11. SNAP-Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamps)
    Information about the laws and regulations related to the food stamps program, eligibility, applications, overpayments and appeals
    Author: Revisions Contributed by Dawn Howell & Kate McCartin, Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
    Updated: 09/02/2011
12. Holistic Advocacy
    Directory of non-legal support services for use by legal aid attorneys
    Author: Illinois Legal Aid Online
    Updated: 01/21/2011
13. CBA Legal Aid Committee Meeting- Resources to Assist Your Legal Aid Client In Crisis
    Discussion on some of the options in the Chicago area to find help for your legal aid client with these more exigent needs
    Presenter(s): The Chicago Bar Association
    Updated: 12/20/2010
14. DHS Policy Manual
    Explains the policy for the Cash, Food Stamp, and Medical assistance programs
    Author: Illinois Department of Human Services
    Updated: 12/10/2010
15. LAF Public Benefits Training
    Training on public benefits
    Presenter(s): Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
    Updated: 11/17/2010
16. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Employment Provisions
    Information about TANF's employment provisions, including applications, payments, and appeal rights, complaints about caseworkers, and crisis assistance.
    Author: Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation
    Updated: 09/29/2010
17. Senior Citizens Handbook - Financial Assistance: Food Stamp Program
    Information about the food stamp program, including what it is, who is eligible, maximum food stamp amounts, how to apply, how to appeal a denial, termination, or reduction in food stamps, and where to go for additional information
    Author: Prairie State Legal Services
    Updated: 09/28/2010
18. Updates to Ticket to Work and Other Programs
    Presentation on Ticket to Work and the Work Incentives Improvement Act
    Presenter(s): John Coburn, Health and Disability Advocates; Alan Goldstein and Cheryl Martin, Equip for Equality
    Updated: 08/02/2010
19. Hurricane Katrina Resources for Attorneys
    Information for attorneys assisting victims of Katrina as well as attorneys who have become victims of the disaster themselves
    Author: Illinois Legal Aid Online
    Updated: 08/02/2010
20. Disaster Legal Services Manual
    Provides general information helpful to disaster relief in Illinois on various topics, including public benefits, housing, consumer protection, and other vital issues
    Author: The Illinois State Bar Association
    Updated: 04/08/2010
21. Accessing Justice: Military Veterans, Servicemembers, and Their Families
    Webcast on the legal problems facing veterans, servicemembers and their families, including Family Law and Wills and Estates
    Presenter(s): Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law Illinois Legal Aid Online
    Updated: 03/09/2010
22. Social Security Training
    This training discusses social security overpayments, the protection of supplemental security income and disability benefits, asset protection, and asset building.
    Presenter(s): Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
    Updated: 03/05/2010
23. Five-Step Evaluation Process for SSI and SSDI Cases
    Describes the elements of the five-step evaluation process.
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 12/30/2009
24. SSI/SSDI Post-Entitlement Issues
    Information on post-entitlement issues for SSI and SSDI, including termination of benefits and continuing disability reviews
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 12/30/2009
25. Senior Citizens Handbook - Financial Assistance: Social Security
    Information about social security, including how it works, eligibility, working after you start receiving benefits, applying, denials and reduction or termination of benefits
    Author: Prairie State Legal Services
    Updated: 12/30/2009
26. Presumptive SSI Benefits: Impairment Eligibility and Application Process
    Information on eligibility for Presumptive SSI benefits, with special attention to HIV cases
    Author: Justin Hayford, AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
    Updated: 12/18/2009
27. Veteran's & Unemployment Law Training
    This session provides an overview of basic veteran's rights and benefits, as well as unemployment eligibility and practice tips
    Presenter(s): Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
    Updated: 12/08/2009
28. SSI/SSDI Training
    This session provides an overview of basic SSI/SSDI issues.
    Presenter(s): Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
    Updated: 12/02/2009
29. CBA Legal Aid Committee Meeting: Issues and Resources for Legal Aid Clients Who are Veterans and Servicemembers
    This program provides a brief introduction for legal aid attorneys as to why they should consider screening new clients as to their military status, and some of the laws and issues that are unique to these two groups.
    Presenter(s): The Chicago Bar Foundation
    Updated: 11/16/2009
30. Social Security Basics
    An overview of how Social Security regulations affect applicants with HIV/AIDS.
    Presenter(s): AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
    Updated: 10/30/2009
31. Cross Examination of Vocational and Medical Experts
    A training on how to cross examine vocational and medical experts for social security cases.
    Presenter(s): Prairie State Legal Services
    Updated: 10/05/2009
32. SSI/SSDI Overpayment Cases Training
    This session will provide an introduction to SSI and SSDI overpayment cases for pro bono attorneys.
    Presenter(s): Illinois Legal Aid Online
    Updated: 09/08/2009
33. Shriver Center Dialogue - How will stimulus funds improve the lives of low-income children?
    A training on how stimulus funds improve the lives of low-income children in Illinois.
    Presenter(s): Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law Illinois Legal Aid Online
    Updated: 06/05/2009
34. Military Service and the Law 2009 Edition
    A general understanding of the different branches of the armed forces, their respective missions, and their organizational structures.
    Author: Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education
    Updated: 05/06/2009
35. CBA Legal Aid Committee Meeting
    Your Legal Aid Client’s Safety Net Programs: Current Challenges and the Impact of the Federal Stimulus Bill
    Presenter(s): The Chicago Bar Association
    Updated: 03/24/2009
36. Senior Citizens Handbook - Financial Assistance: Aid to the Aged, Blind, and Disabled
    Information about AABD, including cash assistance, who is eligible and how to apply, your grant amount, how to appeal a denial, termination or reduction, and where to go for more information
    Author: Prairie State Legal Services
    Updated: 02/16/2009
37. Kids are Expensive: How to Collect Child Support and Obtain Public Benefits for Children
    This session will address strategies for helping clients collect child support.
    Presenter(s): Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois
    Updated: 11/19/2008
38. Navigating the Alphabet Soup of Government Benefits
    This informative and interactive workshop will focus on government benefit eligibility.
    Presenter(s): Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois
    Updated: 11/19/2008
39. How to Present Your Case Effectively at an Administrative Hearing
    Training session for advocates on how to conduct a successful hearing before an administrative agency, such as Social Security Administration and Illinois Department of Human Services.
    Presenter(s): Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois
    Updated: 11/19/2008
40. Disability Rights Consortium: Emergency Evaculation
    The topic this month will be the emergency evacuation of people with disabilities.
    Presenter(s): Equip for Equality
    Updated: 10/23/2008
41. Project Salute: Veteran's Benefit Training
    Video training for Project SALUTE, a program through which attorneys volunteer to assist local veterans in VA disability and pension benefits claims
    Presenter(s): Illinois Legal Aid Online
    Updated: 09/15/2008
42. Retirement Benefits Issues in Estate Planning 2007 Edition
    Prepares you to maximize the estate planning potential of every retirement plan
    Author: Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education
    Updated: 08/14/2008
43. Service Members Civil Relief Act Presentation
    John Costello runs the veteran’s rights project at Legal Assistance Foundation. He will give an introduction of overview of the Service Members Civil Relief Act.
    Presenter(s): Chicago Volunteer Legal Services
    Updated: 06/19/2008
44. Worker's Action Guide
    Explains procedures for implementing the Cash, Food Stamp and Medical Assistance Programs
    Author: Illinois Department of Health Services
    Updated: 03/03/2008
45. Veterans Disability Rights Consortium Meeting: Rights and Legal Resources
    This training covers veterans laws and issues for legal aid advocates and available resources
    Presenter(s): Equip for Equality
    Updated: 03/03/2008
46. Filing an Internet Appeal with Social Security
    Explains the Social Security Administration's online appeal process if a claimant's application is denied.
    Author: Social Security Administration
    Updated: 02/14/2008
47. Homeless Persons and Social Security Claims: A Primer
    Advice for attorneys who wish to help the homeless, but whose practice area is not poverty law
    Presenter(s): Law Project of Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
    Updated: 01/15/2008
48. Medicaid Disability Sample Argument to CAU-Mental Impairments
    Sample letter of argument to Client Assessment Unit (CAU) in support of finding disability based upon mental impairments.
    Author: Susan M. Simone, Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation
    Updated: 12/06/2007
49. IDHS Cash, Food Stamp, and Medical Assistance Manual
    Links to IDHS's policy manual, workers' action guide, official memoranda, abbreviations & acronyms, a manual summary, glossary, index, and recently-posted materials
    Author: Illinois Department of Human Services
    Updated: 08/31/2007
50. Aid to the Aged, Blind and Disabled (AABD)
    An overview of the Illinois AABD program that provides state supplemental payments to persons who meet the aged, blind and disabled requirements of the SSI program, but who need income in excess of the SSI level
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 04/13/2007
51. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
    Information about what TANF is, types of programs, conditions of eligibility, time limits, relationship to other assistance programs, and income and assets
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 03/28/2007
52. Public Assistance & Health Law Training
    Information about Public Assistance and Health Law for new attorneys and
    Presenter(s): Dawn Howell and Nelson Soltman, Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
    Updated: 01/19/2007
53. General Assistance
    Information about the General Assistance program in Chicago and the rest of Illinois
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 12/18/2006
54. Senior Citizens Handbook - Financial Assistance: Veterans Benefit Program
    Information about Veterans Benefit Programs, including service-connected (compensation) and non-service-connected (pension) disability payments, service-connected death compensation, non-service-connected death pension, and other benefits
    Author: Prairie State Legal Services
    Updated: 12/01/2006
55. Medicaid Disability Intake Form
    Form for interviewing potential claimant and for determination of representation
    Author: Susan M. Simone
    Updated: 09/05/2006
56. Appeals of SSA Decisions
    Information about reconsideration, ALJ hearings, and decision review.
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 08/30/2006
57. Medicaid Disability Sample Argument Letter to CAU-Physical Impairment
    Sample letter to Client Assessment Unit (CAU) arguing that, based upon physical impairments, client is disabled
    Author: Susan M. Simone, Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation
    Updated: 08/25/2006
58. Social Security Checklist
    Checklist to use when doing intake for clients with Social Security problems
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 08/11/2006
59. Benefits Checklists
    Links to checklists attorneys can use when they are doing intake for clients with questions about cash assistance, food stamps, and social security.
    Author: Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation
    Updated: 05/08/2006
60. Senior Citizens Handbook - Financial Assistance: General Assistance
    Information about General Assistance, including what it is, who is eligible, how to get it, what to do if your assistance is denied, reduced, or terminated, and where to go for more information
    Author: Prairie State Legal Services
    Updated: 05/03/2006
61. Income Maintenance: State and Federal Cash Assistance Programs
    Information about the state's Aid to Aged, Blind and Disabled, Food Stamps, and TANF, general assistance, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, and Social Security Retirement benefits.
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 05/01/2006
62. The Education/Training Requirement for TANF Teen Parents
    This six-page fact sheet describes the education/training requirement for unmarried, custodial minor parents in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, summarizes research, and offers recommendations for reauthorization
    Author: The Center for Law and Social Policy
    Updated: 04/28/2006
63. Unsuccessful Work Attempts and Their Relation to the Substantial Gainful Activity Threshold
    Article describing how work periods which are deemed unsuccessful work attempts may allow a client to avoid having benefits cut off where they otherwise would be because the work puts the client above the substantial gainful activity dollar level
    Author: Linda Rothnagel, Prairie State Legal Services, Inc.
    Updated: 04/28/2005
64. Table of Relevant Social Security Payment Figures
    Yearly amount off SSI benefits for individuals and couples and other relevant figures
    Author: Andy Cohen, LAF
    Updated: 04/12/2005
65. SSI & SSDI Overpayments
    Information about overpayments by Social Security Administration, including the process for appealing, requesting a waiver, and the amount the SSA can recover
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 12/10/2004
66. Supplemental Security Income & Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits
    Information about Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Benefits
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 12/10/2004
67. Supplemental Security Income
    An overview of Supplemental Security Income including eligibility requirements, benefit levels, income, resources, conditional payments, procedural rules, change in conditions, lost or stolen checks, advance payments, retrospective monthly accounting
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 12/10/2004
68. Sample Medical Records Request Letter
    Sample letter to use when requesting records from a health care provider
    Author: Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago's Children's Disability Project
    Updated: 06/16/2004
69. Letter With School Activities Questionnaire
    Sample letter to send with school activities questionnaire for a minor SSI client
    Author: Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago's Children's Disability Project
    Updated: 06/16/2004
70. School Activities Questionnaire
    A questionnaire to send to a minor SSI client's school
    Author: Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago's Children's Disability Project
    Updated: 06/16/2004
71. Physician's Questionnaire - ADHD and Anxiety
    Sample letter and questionnaire to send on behalf of minor SSI client regarding treatment
    Author: Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago's Children's Disability Project
    Updated: 06/16/2004
72. Physician's Questionnaire - Asthma
    Sample questionnaire to send on behalf of minor SSI client regarding treatment
    Author: Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago's Children's Disability Project
    Updated: 06/16/2004
73. Referral Letter - Child SSI Case
    Letter for new attorney when representing minor client at an SSI hearing
    Author: Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago's Children's Disability Project
    Updated: 06/16/2004
74. Physician's Functional Assessment
    Sample questionnaire to assess the needs of a minor SSI client
    Author: Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago's Children's Disability Project
    Updated: 06/15/2004

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