DB101 assists individuals with disabilities, ages 13 to 65, in understanding how income may impact benefits, enabling informed decision-making and reducing fears about work integration. The service includes: - Web-Based Tools: Offers online estimators to help individuals plan and set work goals, providing personalized success tips. - Expert Assistance: Through the Chat with a Hub feature, individuals can connect with experts for personalized guidance, answers to questions, and connections to community resources. This includes support for those with communication impairments, developmental disabilities, hearing loss, mental illness, emotional disabilities, physical disabilities, and visual impairments. - Informational Resources: Provides comprehensive information about benefits programs and work-related rules, accessible through a user-friendly website.

Programs providing assistance to non-English speaking Korean elderly to access community and government services that are not easily accessible due to language and cultural barriers. Services including: - Citizenship service: Citizenship application, passport, and permanent residency renewal - Consumer service: Bank, garden, and voting - Government benefits service: MSA (Minnesota Supplemental Aid), SSA (Social Security Administration), SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), and SSI (Supplemental Security Income) - Health care service: Medicaid, Medicare and MNSure - Housing services: Minneapolis Public Housing application and renewal - Language service: Interpretation and translation - Social and Cultural service: Korean holidays, major holidays and events, and parent's day - Supportive service: Education service and support groups

Provides legal services for individuals who have been denied, reduced, or terminated government benefits

Provides legal representation and advice to older adults. Handles cases such as: - Abusive debt collection practices - Issues with government benefits such as Medical Assistance (MA) or Social Security SSI programs - Elder Abuse - Housing issues such as eviction or reasonable accommodations of disabilities - Nursing home issues (payment, conditions, and discharge) - Utility shut-off assistance

Provides legal representation and advice to older adults. Handles cases such as: - Abusive debt collection practices - Issues with government benefits such as Medical Assistance (MA) or Social Security SSI programs - Elder Abuse - Housing issues such as eviction or reasonable accommodations of disabilities - Nursing home issues (payment, conditions, and discharge) - Utility shut-off assistance

Provides legal services including: - Creditor problems and harassment by bill collectors - Contract-for-Deed issues - Custody and visitation issues - Divorce - Evictions - Family issues - Fuel assistance - Garnishment - Housing code violations - Landlord-tenant issues including leases, evictions, denials of subsidized housing, fair housing, repair issues, etc. - Mortgage foreclosures - Representation for General Assistance, MFIP, Food Benefits, and Medical Assistance - Unemployment compensation - Utilities - Supplemental Security Income Legal Clinics: Virtual advice regarding Bankruptcy, Family Law, and Social Security is available Home visits may be possible Legal Aid does not handle adoption, paternity, or wills, but special circumstance cases are considered Assistance may involve representation, advice, or referral. The demand for services is high and Legal Aid is unable to handle all requests for assistance. There are established case priorities and, in some instances, waiting lists have become necessary to allocate services. Advice appointments may occur in person, on the phone, electronically, at clinics, or outreach.

Provides legal representation and advice to older adults. Handles cases such as: - Abusive debt collection practices - Issues with government benefits such as Medical Assistance (MA) or Social Security SSI programs - Elder Abuse - Housing issues such as eviction or reasonable accommodations of disabilities - Nursing home issues (payment, conditions, and discharge) - Utility shut-off assistance

Provides legal services for individuals who have been denied, reduced, or terminated government benefits

Legal services may include: legal advice, review court papers, assist in drafting paperwork, mediate, negotiate, litigate, and/or represent at an administrative law or district court hearing LSNM assists people with low incomes and issues critical to daily life. Cases including: - Consumer: threats or harassment by a creditor or debt collector, paycheck or bank account being garnished, and utilities shut off - Education: children with a disability and need an Individualized Education Program (IEP), wrongfully disciplined, suspended or expelled of a child - Employment: criminal history, denied unemployment benefits - Family: custody, divorce, parenting time rights, understanding court papers, etc. - Housing: contract for deed, denied of subsidized housing, evictions, foreclosures, housing discrimination and accommodation, locked out, and repair issues - Protective orders: from physically harming or threatening to harm an individual or child and harassment - Public assistance and disability benefits: food support, medical assistance or other public assistance, denied necessary medical care and unable to work because of a disability - Senior issues: health care directive, power of attorney, and simple will

Helps new refugees, especially those in their first year in the United States, adjust and become self-sufficient in American society. This program is a collaboration between Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota and Vietnamese Social Services. - Help in receiving public assistance benefits - Housing assistance - Immigration status adjustment (green card, etc.) - Refugee resettlement - Transportation to services (on a limited basis)

Individual advocacy to assist with the process of applying and qualifying for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)

Provides legal services for individuals who have been denied, reduced, or terminated government benefits

Assisting individuals who may be eligible for SSI / SSDI Disability advocates and attorneys throughout the determination process: - Screen individuals to see if they may be eligible for SSI - Help access community resources - Work with the medical community - Work with the social security administration - Provides assistance to those who have been denied, assisting with appeals. Outreach services provide: - Initial screening - Assessment - Assistance with application and verifications - Case compilation - Representation by legal department

Assists agricultural workers with employment-related legal issues and improves the working and living conditions of agricultural workers. Cases that are generally accepted: - Employer-provided housing concerns - Employment discrimination and retaliation - H-2A contract violations - Labor trafficking - Limited public benefits assistance - Problems during the recruitment process - Wage theft - Workplace health and safety violations

- Access to donated items - Advocates - Court and/or welfare advocacy - Food - Help with immigration needs ?- Help with Orders for Protection - Information and referral - Safe and secure building

Provides legal services for individuals who have been denied, reduced, or terminated government benefits

Legal representation on denial, reduction or termination of public benefits such as food support, unemployment, MFIP, healthcare, GA, Child Care Assistance, or SSI Also assists with issues like - Debt consolidation - Emergency Assistance denials - Loan issues - Non-citizen tax issues - Tax-related needs on a federal and state level - Utility shut-offs

Provides legal representation and advice to older adults. Handles cases such as: - Abusive debt collection practices - Issues with government benefits such as Medical Assistance (MA) or Social Security SSI programs - Elder Abuse - Housing issues such as eviction or reasonable accommodations of disabilities - Nursing home issues (payment, conditions, and discharge) - Utility shut-off assistance

Legal services may include: legal advice, review court papers, assist in drafting paperwork, mediate, negotiate, litigate, and/or represent at an administrative law or district court hearing LSNM assists people with low incomes and issues critical to daily life. Cases including: - Consumer: threats or harassment by a creditor or debt collector, paycheck or bank account being garnished, and utilities shut off - Education: children with a disability and need an Individualized Education Program (IEP), wrongfully disciplined, suspended or expelled of a child - Employment: criminal history, denied unemployment benefits - Family: custody, divorce, parenting time rights, understanding court papers, etc. - Housing: contract for deed, denied of subsidized housing, evictions, foreclosures, housing discrimination and accommodation, locked out, and repair issues - Protective orders: from physically harming or threatening to harm an individual or child and harassment - Public assistance and disability benefits: food support, medical assistance or other public assistance, denied necessary medical care and unable to work because of a disability - Senior issues: health care directive, power of attorney, and simple will

Provides legal representation and advice to older adults. Handles cases such as: - Abusive debt collection practices - Issues with government benefits such as Medical Assistance (MA) or Social Security SSI programs - Elder Abuse - Housing issues such as eviction or reasonable accommodations of disabilities - Nursing home issues (payment, conditions, and discharge) - Utility shut-off assistance

Provides legal services including: - Creditor problems and harassment by bill collectors - Contract-for-Deed issues - Custody and visitation issues - Divorce - Evictions - Family issues - Fuel assistance - Garnishment - Housing code violations - Landlord-tenant issues including leases, evictions, denials of subsidized housing, fair housing, repair issues, etc. - Mortgage foreclosures - Representation for General Assistance, MFIP, Food Benefits, and Medical Assistance - Unemployment compensation - Utilities - Supplemental Security Income Legal Clinics: Virtual advice regarding Bankruptcy, Family Law, and Social Security is available Home visits may be possible Legal Aid does not handle adoption, paternity, or wills, but special circumstance cases are considered Assistance may involve representation, advice, or referral. The demand for services is high and Legal Aid is unable to handle all requests for assistance. There are established case priorities and, in some instances, waiting lists have become necessary to allocate services. Advice appointments may occur in person, on the phone, electronically, at clinics, or outreach.

Provides legal assistance for people who rely on cash, food, and medical assistance programs when their benefits are denied, terminated or reduced

Assists agricultural workers with employment-related legal issues and improves the working and living conditions of agricultural workers. Cases that are generally accepted: - Employer-provided housing concerns - Employment discrimination and retaliation - H-2A contract violations - Labor trafficking - Limited public benefits assistance - Problems during the recruitment process - Wage theft - Workplace health and safety violations

Provides a free case evaluation and assist individuals with their Social Security Disability claims. Assistance includes: - Act on client's behalf as a representative with the Social Security Administration - Assist clients in getting qualified for disability benefits - Develop complex medical and vocational claim strategies to make certain that clients get the benefits they are eligible for - Help schedule independent examinations from medical experts when necessary to strengthen claims - Manage all notices and correspondence on behalf of clients, complete forms, obtain and submit medical forms and evidence, and track deadlines for claim submissions/appeals filing - Provide regular reports on the status of claims - Review Social Security files, reach conclusions on actions taken, and evaluate the need for further records and evidence

Provides legal services including: - Creditor problems and harassment by bill collectors - Contract-for-Deed issues - Custody and visitation issues - Divorce - Evictions - Family issues - Fuel assistance - Garnishment - Housing code violations - Landlord-tenant issues including leases, evictions, denials of subsidized housing, fair housing, repair issues, etc. - Mortgage foreclosures - Representation for General Assistance, MFIP, Food Benefits, and Medical Assistance - Unemployment compensation - Utilities - Supplemental Security Income Legal Clinics: Virtual advice regarding Bankruptcy, Family Law, and Social Security is available Home visits may be possible Legal Aid does not handle adoption, paternity, or wills, but special circumstance cases are considered Assistance may involve representation, advice, or referral. The demand for services is high and Legal Aid is unable to handle all requests for assistance. There are established case priorities and, in some instances, waiting lists have become necessary to allocate services. Advice appointments may occur in person, on the phone, electronically, at clinics, or outreach.