Public benefit programs like SNAP, Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid enable low-income people to stave off hunger and severe poverty. These programs make a difference for vulnerable communities – but they are also far more difficult to access than they should be, whether through agency mismanagement, lack of accessibility options, or broken technology infrastructure.
NCLEJ is fighting to address these issues through our high-impact litigation and policy advocacy. People deserve a strong social safety net. That starts with making it easier to access the public benefits they need and are entitled to by law.
In Alaska, we secured a commitment from the State to cut it’s 10,000 person SNAP backlog by half in 2023. And in Michigan, we secured a pending settlement that will provide more than $110 million in additional State expenditures for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who rely on Medicaid Community Living Support.
Social safety net programs not only protect people at their times of greatest need and vulnerability, but also support them in their efforts to become economically stable. Help us enable people not just to survive, but thrive.
The National Center for Law and Economic Justice advances racial and economic justice through ground-breaking impact litigation, policy advocacy, and support for grassroots organizing. We have provided legal representation and support since 1965.
