Legal services ยท Legal Services Corporation
Legal Services Corporation: find free legal aid
A search page that finds a civil legal aid organization near you. These organizations serve low-income people; the page does not say whether a local program takes health insurance cases.
Know before you go
The Legal Services Corporation is an independent nonprofit established by Congress in 1974. It funds 129 independent nonprofit legal aid organizations in every state, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. It does not give legal help itself; you search by address and then contact the local organization. Legal aid is meant for people with low incomes, and each program decides which kinds of cases it takes, so ask whether it handles health insurance or Medicaid problems.
- Cost
- Not stated. The page says the corporation funds civil legal aid for low-income Americans.
- Where
- Nationwide
- How to start
- Enter your address or click the map on the page, then call the legal aid organization it shows.
- Have ready
- Your address; Your household income information; The denial notice and its deadline
Where this comes from
- Provider
- Legal Services Corporation
- Source we read
- https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/what-legal-aid/get-legal-help
- Date we read it
- . This is not a fresh check.
- Date the provider printed
- Not displayed
- What we checked
- We read the provider's public page. We have not verified availability, eligibility or outcomes for any individual.
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