THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION on Aging recently awarded New Hampshire Legal Assistance (NHLA) a $90,000 grant to develop the Consumer Law Project for Seniors, a program to improve and expand the delivery of legal services to New Hampshire seniors victimized by consumer-related abuses and financial exploitation. NHLA was one of four programs across the country to receive the funding.

Project attorneys will provide advice and representation to seniors on consumer-related legal problems and will also conduct outreach, education and training to the legal and elder care community. NHLA will collaborate with the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau of the NH Attorney General’s Office and other key legal, community and faith-based organizations on case referral, training and outreach. The Consumer Law Project for Seniors is available free of charge to New Hampshire residents over the age of 60.

"Seniors face an array of complicated and distressing consumer law problems, including deceptive telephone sales, unfair or fraudulent business practices, and debt collector harassment. This grant will help us address a huge unmet need for seniors in New Hampshire," said John Tobin, NHLA’s executive director.

NHLA, a non-profit law firm, has been representing low-income and elderly people for more than three decades in a variety of civil cases involving housing, health care, government benefits, domestic violence, utility shut-off and nursing home problems. Over the years, NHLA has undertaken thousands of cases and worked to protect low-income families and the elderly through work in the Legislature and in a number of other forums.

The Administration on Aging is an agency of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, and one of the nation’s largest funders of home- and community-based care for older persons and their caregivers. Each year, the Administration on Aging provides funds to several new senior legal services projects to help provide critical legal services to hard-to-reach, frail, socially and economically disadvantaged, and otherwise at-risk individuals.

For more information about the Consumer Law Project for Seniors, call John Tobin at 206-2216 or Cheryl Driscoll at 206-2210.

NHLA obtains settlement in Medicaid Case. See page 23.

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