Arkansas Pro Bono Partnership News
April 2006 - Special Edition of the ALSP NewsLink
CLE Announcement
Dates: May 23 & 24, 2006

Presented by the Arkansas Legal Services Partnership &
AARP Foundation National Legal
Training Project


Entergy Conference Center, Arkansas Room, 27th Floor, Metropolitan Bank Tower
Capitol & Broadway, Little Rock, AR

  • Understanding Issues in Medicare Law
  • Advanced Public Benefits

Understanding Issues in Medicare Law
This CLE takes place on May 23, 2006 @ 8:30

Topics:

  • Medicare Part A including hospital, skilled nursing facility, home health and hospice care.
  • Medicare Part B including covered/non-covered, preventive, physician and ambulance services.
  • Medicare Part D including an overview and state cost sharing programs –state pharmaceutical.
  • Credits: 5.75 general
  • Presenter: Pam Meliso is staff attorney with the Center for Medicare Advocacy in Connecticut. She is a co-author of the Medicare Handbook published and updated annually since 2002.

Advanced Public Benefits
This CLE takes place on May 24, 2006 @ 8:15

Topics:

  • Introduction to SSI and SSDI programs.
  • Income and Assets Rules for SSI.
  • In-kind Support and Maintenance.
  • Non-Citizens
  • Warrants
  • Overpayments
  • Credits: 5 general
  • Presenter: John Whitelaw is supervising attorney in the public benefits unit at Community Legal Services, Inc. in Philadelphia. He has represented clients before the Social Security Administration since 1987 and has handled cases at the administrative level and in the federal courts.
  • Imani Woody, a training specialist for AARP will be providing technical assistance to both presenters.

Registration Ends
May 20, 2006

Registration is $25/session or $40 for both




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Make checks payable to ALSP and send to: Ron Lanoue, 303 West Capitol Ave., Suite 200, Little Rock, 72201

Contact Ron Lanoue if you have questions concerning either of these trainings
rlanoue@arlegalservices.org | 501-376-3423

 

The National Legal Training Project [NLTP] is a department of the AARP Foundation and is funded in part by the AARP Foundation and the United States Administration on Aging. The NLTP conducts nationwide training to legal service providers, Area Agency on Aging [AAA] staff, and other elder advocates through on-site and web-based trainings.