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- Senior Citizens Handbook - Detailed Table of Contents
Information for senior citizens, their family members, and advocates about the rights of the elderly and ways to protect or enforce those rights
Author: Prairie State Legal Services
Updated: 07/30/2010 - Senior Citizens Handbook - Wills, Trusts and Estates
Information for senior citizens about wills, trusts, and estates, including writing, changing and revoking your will, probate court, small estates, living trusts, joint tenancy, and where to go for more information
Author: Prairie State Legal Services
Updated: 07/30/2010 - Wills and Estates
Information about estate planning and probate, wills, powers of attorneys, living wills, mental health advance directives, guardianships for disabled adults
Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
Updated: 07/30/2010 - Senior Citizens Handbook - Health Care Decisions
Information for senior citizens about health care decisions, including powers of attorney for health care, living wills, and health care surrogate decision makers
Author: Prairie State Legal Services
Updated: 07/23/2010 - Senior Citizens Handbook - Financial Decisions
Information for senior citizens about financial decisions, including powers of attorney, joint bank accounts, living trusts, representative payees, and the Illinois Volunteer Money Management Program
Author: Prairie State Legal Services
Updated: 07/22/2010 - Highlights of Health Insurance Market Changes Resulting from National Health Insurance Reform
Reviews the effect that the national Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will have on small business and medical insurance companies based on the dates that these effects will become active
Author: Illinois Department of Insurance
Updated: 07/20/2010 - 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 - 2010 Federal Health Reform Overview
A powerpoint overview of changes that the 2010 health care reform will make, how those changes will effect the average American, particularly lower income Americans, the benefits that the reform will provide, and the requirements of the reform
Author: John Bouman, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
Updated: 07/20/2010 - Living Will Declaration
Provides a sample living will form for Illinois that can be filled in and signed
Author: State of Illinois Department of Aging
Updated: 07/16/2010 - CBA Legal Aid Committee Meeting: The Rights of the Unmarried (Part 1)
A Brief Overview on Issues of Inheritance, Powers of Attorney and Health Care
Presenter(s): The Chicago Bar Foundation
Updated: 03/15/2010 - 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 - 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 - Health Law Training
This session provides an overview on basic Health Law.
Presenter(s): Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
Updated: 02/04/2010 - Medicare
Information about the basics of Medicare, Parts A & B.
Author: Attorney Desk Reference Manual
Updated: 01/04/2010 - Senior Citizens Handbook - Health Insurance
Information about health insurance for senior citizens, including the different kinds of policies, private health insurance plans, Medical Supplement (Medigap) and senior health insurance programs
Author: Prairie State Legal Services
Updated: 01/04/2010 - 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 - Senior Citizens Handbook - Medicare
Information about Medicare, including Parts A (hospital insurance), B (medical insurance), and C, how it works, who is eligible, what it costs, how to apply, services covered, supplemental policies, QMB, SLIB, and what to do if your claim is denied
Author: Prairie State Legal Services
Updated: 12/30/2009 - 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 - 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 - Medicare and You
Information about all aspects of Medicare, including descriptions of benefits and advice on choosing a specific plan
Author: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Updated: 12/30/2009 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
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