Helping At Need Seniors With Financial Security Economic and Healthcare Security Practice 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: Initial applications and appeals: Retirement Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Social Security Disability Overpayments , , Medicaid Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) Home Health Care Services such as Personal Care Aide (PCA) services Elderly and Persons with Physical Disabilities (EPD) Waiver (formerly food stamps) Other Retirement Benefits (Federal, Private, and other 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

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