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Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Adoption Legal Services
Discrimination Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
School System Advocacy
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Tax Information
Legal Information Services
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Debt Management
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Representation
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Welfare Rights Assistance
County level services provide direct emergency economic aid for vital necessities to veterans, their widow, and dependents, according to their needs. Personal visits for assistance and claims to housebound veterans or dependents. Must have an honorable or under honorable conditions discharge from active duty or wartime service. Must be a resident in Nebraska for the past one year.

State level services do not require wartime service. Assist in completing applications for the Nebraska Veterans Aid Fund; fee exempt fishing and hunting permits; applications to the Nebraska Veterans Homes; waivers of tuition.

Federal level services provide and/or complete Veteran Administration forms for claims relating but not limited to service connected compensation, disability pension, widow's pension, burial allowance, grave markers/headstones, educational benefits, home loans, insurance, indebtedness, and character of service upgrades.

Categories

Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent and utility payments, and burial expense may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

Categories

Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Provides assistance to veterans with utilities, rent, mortgage interest, funeral, burial expenses, and grave markers; assists Veterans apply for compensation and pension programs.

Categories

Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Veteran Burial Benefits
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance

Provides permanent supportive housing to male veterans. Provides and coordinates all services including treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome, substance abuse, stress, anxiety and psychological counseling. Can also help with budgeting, clothing, legal assistance, food, transportation, entitlement benefits, medical care, job training, education, and job placement services.

Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Adoption Legal Services
Discrimination Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
School System Advocacy
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Tax Information
Legal Information Services
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Debt Management
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Representation
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Welfare Rights Assistance
Veteran service office.

Categories

Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Assist veterans and their families with information and access to federal, state and local veterans benefits.

Provides emergency general relief, including rent and utility assistance, medical expense assistance and food vouchers when available. Also helps with Veteran benefits, Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits and burial benefits. This service is offered to legal residents, indigent individuals, honorably discharged Veterans, their spouses, widows, and dependent children.

Categories

Veteran Burial Benefits
Medical Expense Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Rent Payment Assistance
Assists Ringgold County honorably discharged veterans, their wives, widows, and dependent children. Services include help for basic necessities such as rent or house payments, utilities and food. Assistance may also be provided for glasses and funeral expenses.

APPLICATIONS/ADMISSIONS into Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown for disabled veterans and/or spouse.

Categories

Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Food Vouchers

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent and utility payments, burial assistance, and food may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

Categories

Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Food Vouchers
Rent Payment Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Assists veterans and their families in obtaining the local, state, and federal benefits that they are entitled to receive. This may include assistance in obtaining military records, compensation and pension benefits, education and retraining grants, health insurance, and veteran burial benefits.

Provides transportation for eligible veterans to the Veterans Administration (VA) for medical appointments.

Categories

Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits

Offers emergency assistance for Rent and Power Bills.

Also provides aid to those veterans and their families that reside in the county that may qualify for and need assistance and may not be available from other agencies.

Offers assistance in filing claims to the Veterans Administration for such benefits as Service-Connected Compensation, VA home loans, VA healthcare benefits, educational benefits, widows/survivors' benefits, GI insurance claims, Non-Service-Connected Pension, transportation to VA Hospital. Or any other benefits that the veteran or his/her family may be seeking from the Veterans Administration.

Categories

Veteran Benefits Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Bill Payment Plans
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent, mortgage interests payments, utilities, burial expense and food may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

Categories

Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Food Vouchers
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Veteran Benefits Assistance

County level services provide direct emergency economic aid for vital necessities to veterans, their widow, and dependents, according to their needs. Personal visits for assistance and claims to housebound veterans or dependents. Must have an honorable or under honorable conditions discharge from active duty or wartime service and must be a resident in Nebraska for the past one year and 6 months of that year in Scotts Bluff or Banner County.

State level services do not require wartime service and include the following: completes applications for the Nebraska Veterans Aid Fund, fee exempt fishing and hunting permits, applications to the Nebraska Veterans Homes, and waivers of tuition.

Federal level services - provides and/or completes Veteran Administration forms for claims relating but not limited to: service connected compensation, disability pension, widow's pension, burial allowance, grave Markers/headstones, educational benefits, home loans, insurance, indebtedness, and character of service upgrades.

Categories

Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran/Military Health Insurance
Veteran Benefits Assistance

Provides financial assistance, assist stranded motorists, donates to needy veterans, provides community services and fellowship, and provides scholarships for members. Call for more information and understanding of benefits.

Eligibility dates-

WW1- 4/6/17-11/11/18

WW2 - 12/7/41-12/31/46

Korean - 6/25/50-1/31/55

Vietnam - 2/28/61-5/7/75

Lebanon and Granada - 8/24/82-7/31/84

Panama12/20/89 -1/31/90

Persian Gulf- 8/22/90 - continuing.

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent or utilities may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws including burial benefits.

Categories

Veteran Burial Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws, including burial benefits.

Categories

Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
County Government Departments/Offices
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Adoption Legal Services
Discrimination Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
School System Advocacy
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Tax Information
Legal Information Services
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Debt Management
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Representation
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Welfare Rights Assistance

Offers emergency assistance to veterans and their widows, including help with food, clothing, transportation, rent, and utilities. Provides support for filing claims with the Veteran Administration or state veteran benefits, including assistance with medical expenses, burial benefits, and compensation or pension benefits for eligible veterans and their dependents.

Additionally, offers guidance on retirement benefits for veterans who meet eligibility requirements. Facilitates access to military records, including obtaining copies of documents related to an individual's association with the armed forces, verifying discharge status, and addressing errors in military records. Provides information and referrals for veteran homes that offer care for veterans limited by age or illness who require support in settings where home care is unavailable or unsuitable.

Veteran service office.

Categories

Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran/Military Health Insurance

Assists veterans, their spouses, and dependents with applying for a wide range of benefits, including disability compensation, disability pension, widow/survivor benefits, education and vocational benefits, medical benefits, applications to the Iowa Veteran's Home, and burial benefits such as burial in a national cemetery, headstones and markers, memorial certificates, burial flags, and funeral allowances for eligible deceased veterans and their dependents.

Categories

Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Burial Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Provides assistance to Veterans with utility assistance, rent, burial expenses, and grave markers. Assists Veterans applying for compensation and pension programs.

Categories

Veteran Benefits Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
County Government Departments/Offices
Rent Payment Assistance

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent, utilities, burial expense, and food may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

Categories

Veteran Burial Benefits
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Food Vouchers
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance

Offers to assist veterans with, Social Security, help with benefits, estimate of benefits, change of address, and help replace Medicare Card.