May 29, 2020 by Clarissa Ayala
Lone Star Legal Aid Awarded Grant to Expand its Military and Veteran Services Statewide
Lone Star Legal Aid was awarded an emergency grant to expand its military and veteran services to all of Texas. Lone Star Legal Aid’s Military Veterans Unit (MVU) provides free civil legal services to low-income United States military veterans, their dependents, and surviving spouses- now, throughout the State of Texas.
The MVU can help with veterans benefits, housing issues (evictions, foreclosures), consumer issues, including bankruptcies, expunctions and non-disclosures, family issues (child custody and support, and divorce), education, employment, Medicare and Medicaid, and wills and probate issues.
LSLA’s MVU is ready to serve Texas’ military families. With generous funding from the Texas Veterans Commission, applications are now being accepted over the phone or online.
Here’s how to reach MVU:
- Call our toll-free statewide hotline – 1-844-400-VETS (8387);
- Email us at vethelp@lonestarlegal.org; or
- Apply online at www.lonestarlegal.org.
Learn more about what MVU does to help Texas’ veteran community here.
Lone Star Legal Aid is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit law firm focused on advocacy on behalf of low-income and underserved populations. Lone Star Legal Aid serves millions of people at 125% of federal poverty guidelines that reside in 72 counties in the eastern and Gulf Coast regions of Texas, and 4 counties of southwest Arkansas. Lone Star Legal Aid focuses its resources on maintaining, enhancing, and protecting income and economic stability; preserving housing; improving outcomes for children; establishing and sustaining family safety and stability, health and well‐being; and assisting populations with special vulnerabilities, like those who have disabilities, or who are elderly, homeless, or have limited English language skills. To learn more about Lone Star Legal Aid, visit our website at http://www.lonestarlegal.org.
Media contact: Clarissa Ayala, cayala@lonestarlegal.org.
