August 3, 2022 by Ashley Norris
Lone Star Legal Aid’s Military & Veterans Unit to Host Fundraiser at Sawyer Heights MOD Pizza
Houston, TX – Lone Star Legal Aid is proud to announce that pizza sales at the Sawyer Heights MOD Pizza location (1911 Taylor St, Ste. A, Houston, TX 77007) on Sunday, September 11, 2022, will benefit our Military & Veterans Unit.
Ways to support this fundraiser
Receive 20% off all digital and in-store fundraiser sales on September 11, 2022 by:
- Visiting the restaurant and showing your fundraiser flyer;
- Mentioning the fundraiser at checkout; or
- Ordering online with the digital coupon code on the day of the fundraiser.
Order online at modpizza.com or with the MOD app and apply this digital code: MODF9326
To learn more, click here.
About Our Military & Veterans Unit
The Houston metro area is home to Texas’ largest veteran population and the nation’s second-largest. Our Military & Veterans Unit (MVU) provides free civil legal services to low-income United States military veterans, their dependents, and surviving spouses throughout Texas.
We can help with:
- Veterans Benefits, including discharge upgrades, character of discharge review, service-connected disability, non-service connected pension, survivor’s benefits, and education benefits (GI Bill and Hazelwood Act);
- Bankruptcy, including Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 for home and asset protection and debt discharge;
- Expunctions & Non-Disclosures of misdemeanor and felony cases;
- Custody & Child Support, including enforcement, establishing, and modification of child support;
- Consumer Issues, including consumer debt defense, contracts & warranties, home repair, and lemon law;
- Divorce & Family Issues, including termination of parental rights, adoption, acknowledgment of paternity, guardianship;
- Education, including special education disputes, school discipline, IEP;
- Employment, such as unemployment claims, wage theft issues, wrongful discharge;
- Housing, such as eviction defense, foreclosure defense, repair and remedy actions, affidavits of heirship, and homeownership matters like mortgage and contract for deed disputes;
- Public Benefits, including Social Security Disability Appeals, Medicare & Medicaid; and SNAP benefits (food stamps);
- Wills & Probate, such as small estate affidavits, independent/dependent administration, determination of heirship, and estate planning documents like wills, powers of attorney, appointment of guardianship; and
- Crime Victim Services, such as crime victim compensation, impact statements, protective orders.
For more information about our Military & Veterans Unit, visit our MVU service page.
Servicemembers we’ve helped:
- LSLA Military & Veterans Unit Represents Caring Uncle in Custody Case
- LSLA Reduced Property Taxes, and Obtained Medical Coverage and SNAP for 92 Year Old Veteran of WWII and the Korean War
- Lone Star Legal Aid Helps Air Force Veteran Obtain Unemployment Benefits, Including Back Pay
- LSLA Helps Disabled Veteran With Multiple Legal Cases
Help Us, Help Texans.
Lone Star Legal Aid is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit law firm focused on advocacy for 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 with disabilities, or who are elderly, homeless, or have limited English language skills. Lone Star Legal Aid does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. To learn more about Lone Star Legal Aid, visit our website at www.lonestarlegal.org.
Media contact: media@lonestarlegal.org
