Justice in Aging

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

Nov 6, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$1,749,208

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Economic security advocacy - nsclc seeks to preserve, strengthen, expand and improve access to programs such as social security and supplemental security income that provide income security to millions of older adults and people with disabilities. Our priorities for 2013 include: (1) update and restore the supplemental security income (ssi) program through educating members of congress, advocates and others about the problems with the current program; (2) improve the social security administration's non-disability appeals process, seek workable policies that ensure proper accommodations for people with disabilities; (3) protect social security and supplemental security income (ssi) benefits and ensure that settled or decided cases that restored benefits to many elderly poor are not overturned; (4) end discrimination of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender couples in social security benefits; (5) play a lead role in enhancing language access policies for both federal programs; (6) strengthen social security and continue to advocate for adoption of the consumer price index for the elderly (cpi-e). To achieve our objectives, we use litigation, policy advocacy, and technical assistance to advocates including case consultations, training at outside conference presentations and webinars, as well as publication of written materials.

Activity 3

Litigation - historically, nsclc has used litigation to protect the rights of the nation's low income older adults and frequently those of persons with disabilities. Here are some recent cases in which nsclc is involved: (1) a settlement in oster v lightbourne with the state of california that will prevent devastating cuts to the state's in-home supportive services (ihss) program; (2) a lawsuit, brought with lead counsel center for medicare advocacy (bagnall v sebeluis), that challenges the medicare program's classification of hospital patients under "observation status"; (3) a case brought against the u.s. Social security administration (ssa) challenging its practice of relying exclusively on outstanding probation and parole warrants as sufficient evidence as a basis for denying benefits to 140,000 people (clark v astrue); (4) a case in which nsclc, with others, challenged the constitutionality of the defense of marriage act that the supreme court decided in june 2013 that the act was unconstitutional (windsor v us).

Filer

EIN

95-3132674