Shriver Center - Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

The Family Violence Option of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996: Interpretation and Implementation

The Family Violence Option of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, if properly implemented, can give states significant flexibility in addressing the needs of poor battered women. This article describes the option, its interpretation, and guidelines for successful implementation.

By Wendy Pollack and Martha F. Davis

PASS: Supplemental Security Income's Plan for Achieving Self-Support

For persons with disabilities, the Supplemental Security Income Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) offers a way out of poverty by allowing them a means to vocational success and financial independence. Using practical examples, this article describes how to assist a client in formulating a PASS proposal.

By James R. Sheldon, Jr., and Edwin J. Lopez-Soto

The Quid Pro Quo for Chevron Deference: Enforcing the Public Participation Requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act

New agency rules and regulations adopted without the public participation required by the Administrative Procedure Act (and its state counterparts) may be extremely vulnerable to procedural attacks upon their validity. This article discusses the significance of the judicial deference doctrine established by the Supreme Court in Chevron USA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council and how to challenge the agency rules under the Administrative Procedure Act.

By Gary F. Smith

How the Clinton Administration and the 104th Congress Impaired Poor People's Rights to Housing

This article describes the recent assault on federally mandated tenants' rights and what to expect in the foreseeable future.

By David B. Bryson

Farmworker Law Developments 1995—96

This article discusses legislative and administrative advocacy developments in 1995 and 1996 as well as significant court decisions in a number of areas involving farmworker living and working conditions.

By Cynthia G. Schneider

Rethinking the Full-Service Legal Representational Model: A Maryland Experiment

An experimental project in which law students give legal information and advice to otherwise unrepresented parties in family law cases is described. Expanded use of a limited-representation model for legal assistance, together with reconfiguring existing legal services, can help increase the number of poor people who obtain access to justice.

By Michael Millemann, Nathalie Gilfrich, and Richard Granat

Social Security Administration Issues New Children's Supplemental Security Income Disability Standard

By Thomas Yates

A Quick and Easy Method of Screening for Medicaid Eligibility Under the Pickle Amendmen

By Gordon Bonnyman

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March - April 1997