If you filed your 2020 taxes, you should automatically receive a $250-$300 per child payment through the expanded Child Tax Credit. If you did not file your 2020 taxes, you can use the IRS non-filer tool to access these payments….
Executive directors Ken Schorr, of Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, and Jim Barrett, of Pisgah Legal Services, are calling on swift, decisive action from the North Carolina Legislature in response to COVID-19: Expand Medicaid Improve Access to our state’s Unemployment Insurance program Restore…
Open enrollment is now underway for thousands of North Carolinians to get Medicaid, and there are some big changes. People have just two months to enroll. Pisgah Legal’s Chief Operations Officer, Jackie Kiger explains some important changes in how to…
Open Enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) runs Nov. 1 through Dec. 15. There are a few changes in healthcare options this year, and Asheville Citizen Times, WLOS News 13, and Blue Ridge Public Radio highlighted those changes as well…
Pisgah Legal Services has not taken an official stance on the proposed NC Constitutional Amendment known as Marsy’s Law, but did provide a quote for a recent article in the Asheville Citizen-Times. Read the full article.
From the New York Times, economic professor Robert Frank argues that rising inequity harms low-income families not only by depriving them of a fair share of society’s income growth, but also by also stacking the legal system against them. Get…
Pisgah Legal Services is proud to support a new initiative, Family Friendly Affordable Buncombe (FFAB). This initiative is made up of multiple coalitions advocating to use increased property tax revenue from Mission properties to address some of the county’s significant issues….
More than 120,000 North Carolinians earned at or below the minimum wage last year. Too many people are struggling just to get by. Read about it in an article by Patrick McHugh, a Policy Analyst at the North Carolina Budget…
What do you need to know about enrolling for health insurance during the next ACA Open Enrollment that begins on November 1st? Check out this podcast featuring Attorney Jackie Kiger from Pisgah Legal Services, John Wingerter from Council On Aging…
This November, voters will elect three Asheville City Council Members. Are you ready for the October 6th Primary Election that will narrow the field from 16 to six? VoteBuncombe.org is your local, nonpartisan voter education resource and is produced by…