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Disability Public Benefits
Disability public benefits refer to financial assistance provided by the government to individuals with disabilities. These benefits may include Social Security disability insurance (SSDI), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Medicare, Medicaid, housing assistance, and vocational rehabilitation services. Benefits may also be offered by the state including specialized transportation, home health care, and respite services. In some cases, individuals may also be able to get help with medical expenses, food, utilities, and educational services.
Transition Services for High School Children With Disabilities
Questions and answers about transition services for children with disabilities with a focus on high school students.
Social Security Benefits
Social Security is a federal insurance program that pays money to workers who have reached retirement age or become disabled, or to certain dependents of workers who have retired, become disabled, or died.
About Public Benefits
This information covers public benefits, which are government-funded programs that help individuals and families in need. Public benefits can include cash and income assistance, health care, food assistance, housing assistance, and tax benefits. Depending on the program, eligibility for public benefits may require a person or family to meet certain income and resource requirements.
About Emergency Disaster SNAP Benefits & Disaster Food Stamps
The Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (DSNAP)provides eligible low to moderate-income households who do not normally get SNAP benefits get assistance after a federally declared disaster. This also includes information for current SNAP recipients including information about Replacement SNAP Benefits and Supplemental SNAP Benefits.
Common Legal Issues After a Disaster
This resource covers housing, consumer, finance after a disaster, family and educational issues, disaster programs and benefits, employment and unemployment after a disaster, wills, estates and guardianships, and other public health emergency issues after a disaster.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Resource Guide
The resource is about custody, visitation, and other legal problems that face grandparents.
ABLE Savings Accounts For People With Disabilities
The Louisiana Achieving A Better Life Experience Act Program (ABLE) allows families to save for disability-related expenses of their loved ones. The advantage of this program is that it allows the family to save without worrying about whether the assets in an account will be counted as an asset for purposes of determining eligibility for federal and state benefits programs such as Medicaid and Social Security.
Disaster Related Family and Education Issues
This covers issues that arise during or after a disaster within a family, like a divorce, guardianship, powers of attorney to take care of an adult, domestic violence, child custody including custody by mandate, and other issues.
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Federal agency webpage with summary of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), questions and answers, and a link to the federal regulations on the FMLA. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides certain employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year. It also requires that their group health benefits be maintained during the leave. FMLA is designed to help employees balance their work and family responsibilities by allowing them to take reasonable unpaid leave for certain family and medical reasons. It also seeks to accommodate the legitimate interests of employers and promote equal employment opportunity for men and women. FMLA applies to all public agencies, all public and private elementary and secondary schools, and companies with 50 or more employees.
Preparing For A Disaster
It is important to plan ahead for disasters. The more you prepare ahead for a disaster, the faster and easier it may be to recover. If you are experiencing the effects of a disaster, you may face different legal problems. This includes information for how to prepare in advance for a disaster and for disaster survivors. A disaster event requires immediate attention and quick remedial action. A disaster involves injury, loss of life, damage to property, or catastrophic interference with normal activities. This information includes how to prepare to deal with sudden, unexpected, or impending situations where a disaster may occur.
Consolidating Federal Education Loans: Pros and Cons
This resource goes over the pros and cons of whether or not you decide whether a Direct Consolidation Loan is right for you. A Direct Consolidation Loan allows you to consolidate (combine) multiple federal education loans into one loan.
Social Security Numbers (SSA) for Domestic Violence Victims
Here is information from the Social Security Administration about getting a new Social Security number for victims of domestic violence.
Replacing Lost Documents
This resource provides information on how to go about replacing documents lost, destroyed, or damaged during a disaster.
Child Support Guidelines For Calculation And Enforcement
This concerns the guidelines that Louisiana has set as rules for how child support arrangements are calculated and enforced. This includes the financial models that Louisiana establishes for child support, based on income or needs.