Description

The Senior Law Project provides legal advice or representation for people age 60 or older for issues including: - Citizenship, including medical waivers\ - Consumer law, including debt collection and garnishment - Family law, including marriage dissolution, orders for protection, and third-party custody where domestic abuse or child endangerment is alleged, or spousal maintenance is needed - Housing, including: eviction, foreclosure, poor conditions, requests for reasonable accommodation - Power of attorney and health care directives - Public benefits programs, including denial or termination of eligibility/lack of payment by: Medicare, Social Security (SSI), Medical Assistance, food support, Minnesota Supplemental Aid, General Assistance, Emergency Assistance, fuel assistance, Veterans benefits - Medicare - Nursing home problems, including involuntary discharge - Social Security The Senior Law Project DOES NOT handle: - Estate Planning - Living trusts - Real estate transactions - Wills Disability law efforts include: - Decreasing discrimination and increasing integration - Increasing access to appropriate services - Individual and system advocacy concerns - Reducing abuse and neglect

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