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Legal Services Corporation: find legal aid near you
A search by address or city for civil legal aid organizations funded by the Legal Services Corporation, which supports free legal help for low-income Americans, with a link to LawHelp.org for information and forms.
Know before you go
The tool finds a local legal aid organization; it does not give legal advice itself. Legal aid is for people with low incomes and each organization sets which problems it takes, so health insurance cases are not guaranteed. The page also points to LawHelp.org for information on your legal questions and free legal forms. A lawyer is the right person for questions such as whether to sue.
- Cost
- Not stated. The page says the funding is for civil legal aid for low-income Americans.
- Where
- Nationwide
- How to start
- Enter your address or city on the page, then call the organization it lists and ask whether it handles health coverage or Medicaid appeals.
- Have ready
- Your denial letter; Your income information, if asked; A short timeline of events
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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- Program or service
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- Program or service
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