Meeting Basic Needs

NCLEJ works to ensure that government policies and practices assure that needy families and individuals receive the critical cash assistance, Food Stamps, and Medicaid for which they are eligible and which they so desperately need to preserve family unity and promote the well-being of children. When government agencies fall short of their legal obligations - for example, by discouraging eligible people from applying for benefits, failing to provide timely assistance, or by prematurely rolling out a faulty computer system that denies subsistence benefits to thousands of eligible families, the Center has used effective court challenges to redress the harm and hold public officials accountable.

We welcome the opportunity to work with advocates on issues arising in their states. Feel free to contact us.

Recent NCLEJ Advocacy:

NCLEJ and Colleagues Achieve Settlement in Colorado Requiring Prompt Processing of Benefits Applications (January, 2008)

Center Challenges Pervasive Benefit Delays in Upstate New York (2006)

Center and Colleagues Stop New York City from Unlawfully Preventing Access to Benefits (2005)

Center Wins Favorable Settlement in Arizona Food Stamp Application Delay Case (2005)