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Brooklyn Legal Services, Corporation A - SSI/Disability Advocacy Project
The Disability Adovcacy Project was originally started as a pilot project
in 1983 with funding from the City & State with the focus of representing
individuals who receive public assistance and who have been denied SSI
disability benefits so that if successful, those individuals would no
longer receive public assistance but SSI instead, thus saving the City &
State thousands of dollars. Due to the overwhelming success of the pilot
project, the funding was expanded first Citywide then Statewide. The
success of this project not only benefited the legal services community
with the specialty grand funding of DAP funds but it also heped pave the
way for other specialty grant funding to fund such things as housing, AIDS
and family law advocacy, to name a few. Today, most of the funding that
Brooklyn Legal Services receives is specialty grand funding. The DAP unit
at Brooklyn Legal Services currently wins over 93% of the cases that we
take for representation at the hearing level. However, we're still
shooting for 100%.
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Brooklyn Legal Services, Corporation A - SSI/Disability Advocacy Project
256-260 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-487-2300
www.bka.org |
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