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FACT SHEET: How a Federal Rule Restricting Privately Funded Legal Aid Harms Veterans

From the Brennan Center for Justice:

FACT SHEET: How a Federal Rule Restricting Privately Funded Legal Aid Harms Veterans

LEGAL AID: A VITAL LIFELINE Civil legal aid lawyers help low-income veterans with a variety of legal problems, and can be a critical lifeline enabling veterans to fight off unlawful evictions, protect themselves against predatory lenders, and obtain desperately needed disability assistance. The federal Legal Services Corporation (LSC) provides slightly more than half of all funding for legal aid, distributing $326 million to 143 legal aid programs nationwide in 2006. LSC recipient programs also receive more than $300 million annually from non-federal donors. Yet these revenues combined meet fewer than one-quarter of the civil legal needs (read entire fact sheet) (pdf)

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