Community Program Legal Resources | Senior Services | Self Help Community Programs

In late 2001, with the help of grants from an anonymous donor and from the Dollard Charitable Trust, Selfhelp initiated the Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program to empower seniors to access vital entitlements and to protect themselves from unfair practices. The Program uses a unique interdisciplinary approach—the elderly client is principally assisted by one of Selfhelp’s 125 social workers working at diverse sites in four boroughs and Nassau County. The social worker teams up with the Evelyn Frank lawyer or legal assistant to do legal advocacy for the client. The Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program also offers training programs to other social service organizations, which need information about Medicaid eligibility, Medicaid home care advocacy and other elderlaw issues.

The Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program plays a leading role statewide in educating advocates about Medicaid, the new Medicare prescription drug program, and Supplemental Needs Trusts used for Medicaid and SSI. The program co-sponsors and updates several webpages on these issues at the Online Resources Center, which can be found at the following links:

Medicaid and other insurance programs
Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program
Materials on Supplemental Needs Trusts

Other Legal Resources Program materials on the internet:

Brochure on the effect of Holocaust reparations on federally funded benefits such as Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), with a worksheet for calculating the amount of reparations received.
Click here to access the brochure & worksheet
DVD and other materials on the Medicare Prescription Drug program.
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Presentation to National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug Prices in January 2006 on problems with Medicare Part D for people who also receive Medicaid.
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