En español | The Economic and Healthcare Security Practice ensures that seniors receive the income, benefits, and services to which they are entitled that enable them to live independently in the community. Attorneys represents clients in cases involving public benefits and income maintenance issues.
The staff assist clients whose benefits or services have been threatened with termination, terminated, decreased or overpaid through representation at all stages of the appeal process including personal conferences, requests for reconsideration, and fair hearings before the Office of Administrative Hearings.
Our Services
The Economic and Healthcare Security staff represent clients in cases involving public benefits and income maintenance issues. Such cases include, but are not limited to:
- Social Security Administration (SSA)
- Initial applications and appeals:
- Social Security Retirement
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- Social Security Disability
- Overpayments
- Initial applications and appeals:
- Department of Human Services (DHS), Economic Security Administration (ESA), Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF)
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB)
- Home Health Care Services such as Personal Care Aide (PCA) services
- Elderly and Persons with Physical Disabilities (EPD) Waiver
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits (formerly food stamps)
- Other Retirement Benefits (Federal, Private, and other
- Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Benefits (specific areas only)
- Non Service Connected VA Pension Claims
- Aid & Attendance Rating Claims for VA Pension Eligible Veterans
- Service Connected Disability Compensation Claims for Presumed Conditions
- Enrollment in E-Benefits Portal
- Overpayments
Public Benefits Checkup
Staff also assist clients in determining what public benefits and services they are entitled to receive by conducting Public Benefits Checkups and assisting clients in applying for those identified benefits and services.
Other Services
- Small consumer cases (such as public utilities, hearing aids, credit card debt, banking problems, student loans)
- Collection cases
- Other general cases that do not fall squarely within other specific LCE programs
Contact
202-434-2120
