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1. 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: 09/01/2010
2. Disabilities Guidebook: Social Security Disability Benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
   Information about your rights to social security disability benefits and supplemental security income
   Author: David Wolowitz & Michael O'Connor, Prairie State Legal Services
   Updated: 08/03/2010
3. Public Benefits Training
   This session provides an introduction to basic issues regarding Public Benefits in Illinois
   Presenter(s): Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
   Updated: 08/03/2010
4. 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
5. 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
6. Tax Issues in Divorces for Low and Moderate Income Couples
   Discusses important tax facts for determining the division of the property and compensation for one party versus the other in a divorce, such as the impact of tax on calculations child support and disposal of joint property
   Author: Betsy Wong, Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation
   Updated: 07/20/2010
7. 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
8. 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
9. Five-Step Evaluation Process for SSI and RSDI Cases
   Describes the elements of the five-step evaluation process.
   Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
   Updated: 12/30/2009
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. Senior Citizens Handbook - Financial Assistance: Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
    Information about SSI, including what it is, who is eligible, income and asset limits, how to apply, how working effects it, what to do if SSA denies, reduces or terminates benefits, and where to go for additional information.
    Author: Prairie State Legal Services
    Updated: 12/14/2009
14. Food Stamps
    Information about the laws and regulations related to the food stamps program, eligibility, applications, overpayments and appeals
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 12/08/2009
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. SSDI/SSI Training
    A video training on SSDI/SSI public benefits issues.
    Presenter(s): Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
    Updated: 04/29/2009
23. Public Benefits Training
    A video training on Public Benefits training
    Presenter(s): Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
    Updated: 04/20/2009
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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: 02/12/2009
27. LSC TIG Conference 2009: You Never Get the Disaster You Want
    LSC TIG Conference 2009: You Never Get the Disaster You Want
    Presenter(s): Legal Services Corporation Technology Initiative Grants Program
    Updated: 02/06/2009
28. Legal Rights and Resources for Youth Without Housing
    A manual for issues relating to homeless youth, including education, public benefits, heathcare, etc.
    Author: Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
    Updated: 11/21/2008
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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: 06/02/2008
32. DHS Policy Manual
    Explains the policy for the Cash, Food Stamp, and Medical assistance programs
    Author: Illinois Department of Human Services
    Updated: 03/03/2008
33. 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
34. 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
35. Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents
    Provides information on the various veterans benefits programs
    Author: Department of Veterans Affairs
    Updated: 02/27/2008
36. 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
37. Medicaid Health Benefits for Workers with Disabilities
    Explains the Medicaid Buy-in program, which allows people with disabilities who are working to enroll in Medicaid
    Author: Health and Disability Advocates/AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
    Updated: 01/28/2008
38. 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
39. Application and Affidavit to Sue or Defend as an Indigent Person
    Sample court form to sue or defend as an indigent person
    Author: Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County
    Updated: 12/10/2007
40. 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
41. 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
42. Social Security Disability and Retirement
    Links to explanations about the law on social security disability and retirement benefits
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 04/13/2007
43. 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
44. 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
45. 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
46. General Assistance
    Information about the General Assistance program in Chicago and the rest of Illinois
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 12/18/2006
47. 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
48. Medicaid Disability Intake Form
    Form for interviewing potential claimant and for determination of representation
    Author: Susan M. Simone
    Updated: 09/05/2006
49. Appeals of SSA Decisions
    Information about reconsideration, ALJ hearings, and decision review.
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 08/30/2006
50. 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
51. Social Security Checklist
    Checklist to use when doing intake for clients with Social Security problems
    Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
    Updated: 08/11/2006
52. 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
53. 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
54. 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
55. 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
56. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Work-Related Rules and How to Make the Most of TANF Benefits
    Information on how to use TANF's work-related rules to secure employment and/or vocational or college education
    Author: Sarah Megan, Prarie State Legal Services, Inc.
    Updated: 06/27/2005
57. Proposed Changes in Social Security and Their Impact on Women
    Video training on how possible changes to the Social Security system could affect women
    Presenter(s): Anna Rappaport, Independent Consultant; Karen Holden, Professor and Associate Dean, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Updated: 06/03/2005
58. Food Stamps & the LAF Food Stamp Project
    Video training on the LAF Food Stamps Project for attorneys interested in offering pro-bono services
    Presenter(s): Jessica Price, Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
    Updated: 06/01/2005
59. 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
60. Table of Relevant Social Security Payment Figures
    Yearly amount off SSI benefits for individuals and couples and other relevant figures
    Author: Andy Cohen, Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
    Updated: 04/12/2005
61. Children's Supplemental Security Income
    Training on the statutory and regulatory scheme for children's SSI
    Presenter(s): Tom Yates, Health and Disability Advocates and Martha Tonn, Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
    Updated: 03/08/2005
62. Handling Social Security Disability Cases
    Overview of the SSI and SSD government programs
    Presenter(s): Deborah Spector, Spector & Lenz
    Updated: 02/25/2005
63. 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: 12/13/2004
64. SSI & RSDI 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
65. 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
66. 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
67. 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
68. 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
69. 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
70. 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
71. 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
72. 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
73. 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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