dvocates for the poor have estimated that the new rule would cut off 700,000 people from the program.
Fourteen states, New York City and the District of Columbia asked the courts to block the Trump administration from imposing tougher work requirements on food stamp recipients.
Senior Staff Attorney Amee Vora Reflects on her work in the Domestic Violence/Family Law Unit at Legal Aid
As the director of DCHA’s Housing Choice Voucher Program for more than a decade, McCoy oversaw and managed the distribution of vouchers to an estimated 19,000 families, up from about 5,000 when he started.
It wasn’t the first time the 45-year-old woman’s husband had verbally abused her. But last September, he “spiraled out of control,” she said. In front of their children in their Northeast D.C. living room, he threatened to stab her to death.
It’s literally in the American Bar Association’s manual — Model Rule 6.1 calls for a goal of 50 hours of pro bono service per year for each and every lawyer.
The move comes after an I-Team investigation found what housing advocates call a gap in enforcement.
On Tuesday, the Council passed a bill that increases the amount of District residents’ paychecks that are protected from debt collection.
The District of Columbia must face a lawsuit over its slow processing of food-stamp applications and its failure to notify recipients when it's time to recertify their benefits, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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