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Providing benefits and employment assistance to assist individuals in maintaining and/or obtaining benefits for which they are eligible.

• Food stamp overpayment, food stamps being denied, terminated, or delayed;
• Ohio Works First (OWF) cash assistance/childcare vouchers/Prevention Retention Contingency (PRC) or other state-local income maintenance overpayments, OWF cash assistance/childcare vouchers/PRC or other state/local income maintenance being denied/terminated/or delayed;
• Child disability case overpayments; child disability case where applicant has received notice proposing termination of benefits and an appeal has been requested;
• Social Security or Supplemental Security Insurance overpayments;
• Denial/termination/application delay of Medicaid or Medicare coverage or services, or problems with Medicaid or Medicare for currently or previously incarcerated individuals;
• Medical and nursing home collection;
• Emergency cases where there is a problem communicating with Cuyahoga Job & Family Services (CJFS) regarding benefits or application;
• Public benefits case involving applicant with a mental impairment, language or literacy barrier, or other issue;
• Veteran benefits.

• Medicaid or Medicare has been denied or terminated AND the applicant has no medical coverage;

• Applicant’s waiver services (in-home health supports, nursing, or aide services) have been reduced, denied, or terminated;
• Medicare premium assistance program (SLMB, QMB, QI1) has been denied or terminated.

• Evaluates cases where applicant has a hearing, speech, or other impairment and has been denied communication or reasonable accommodations by a court or government agency.

• Evaluates cases where applicant denied access to court or governmental agency due to denial of poverty affidavit/fee wavier or otherwise unable to pay required costs to obtain vital documents.

• Evaluates cases where applicant is limited English proficient and has been denied an interpreter or translator by a court or government agency.

• Ohio Works First.
• Food stamps.
• Social Security Disability and SSI.
• Medicaid and Medicare.
• Unemployment.

Provides legal advice and representation to individuals who have been wrongfully denied government benefits, or whose government benefits have been wrongfully terminated or reduced. Assists with Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Medicaid, Medicare, unemployment benefits, Child Care Assistance, Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program (KTAP), and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) related issues.