August 17, 2022 by Natalie Cochran
Lone Star Legal Aid’s Financial Assistance and Public Benefits Unit Overview
Our financial assistance and public benefits advocates help low-income families access nutritional, financial, and income-support benefits.
We can help with
- Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the program formerly known as Food Stamps
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- Social Security
- County Indigent Healthcare
- Unemployment Insurance
- Medicare/Medicaid
- Discrimination in government programs for race, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, disability, sexual orientation, or family size.
Our staff will guide you throughout the entire legal process. As our client, we can appeal benefit denials with the help of our paralegals and attorneys who will act as a representative on your behalf.
If you or a loved one need assistance, you can apply for free legal services by visiting our website at www.lonestarlegal.org or by calling 1-800-733-8394.
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 the 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 www.lonestarlegal.org
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