NHLA offers legal advice on legal and consumer issues faced by seniors through the Senior Citizens Law Project.
NHLA offers legal advice and representation on issues faced by seniors through the Senior Citizens Law Project (SCLP)) in areas such as:
Social Security
Supplemental Security Income
Medicaid/Medicare
Nursing Home Resident Rights
Elderly Housing issues
Mobile Home Resident rights
Property Tax Relief
Senior Advice Line on various civil law issues
If you are a New Hampshire resident over the age of 60 and need legal advice on civil legal issues, call NHLAs Senior Legal Advice Line at 1-888-353-9944 or (603) 624-6000. The SCLP has the capacity to serve elders who are housebound, isolated or institutionalized.
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Success Stories
Senior Advocacy in action: NHLA prevails in Superior Court to preserve a senior's nursing home care.
NHLA recently prevailed in state court on behalf of a double amputee in her eighties who has lived in the same nursing home in Manchester for many years. In early February she was transported to one of Manchester's hospitals for medical care. However, after her medical problem had been resolved and the hospital cleared her to return home, the nursing home refused to readmit her.
NHLA Senior Citizens Law Project attorneys quickly prepared the court pleadings necessary to seek a temporary restraining order to secure the client's readmission. After the nursing home refused to relent, the NHLA team went to Superior Court and persuaded the Court to enter a temporary restraining order mandating the nursing home to readmit her. The case then proceeded to a preliminary injunction hearing before a different Superior Court Judge. The nursing home attorney vigorously contested the case but the Court entered a preliminary injunction order in favor of the resident. She is now back in familiar surroundings.
Funders:
Campaign for Legal Services
IOLTA program of New Hampshire Bar Foundation
NH Bureau of Elderly & Adult Services
United Way
Pamphlets
Medicaid Income and Asset Rules for Nursing Home Residents
Senior Citizen Law Project
