Nebraska Medicaid
Nebraska faces a class action over its Medicaid expansion plans and its work and public service requirements for some receiving benefits.
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Justices Find Courts Can Hear Disputes Over Railroad Disability Benefits
The refusal to reopen a benefits determination by a board that oversees decisions on railroad workers’ pensions can be challenged in federal court, a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
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New FIFA Rules to Protect Female Players’ Maternity Rights
Female soccer players should soon get their maternity rights protected under new employment rules announced Thursday by FIFA.
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A group of hotel and salon owners are suing California over its requirement that employers give workers employee benefits, claiming that the workers are independent contractors and not subject to the law.
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VA Must Pay Retroactive Benefits to Blue Water Vietnam Vets
The U.S. Veterans Administration must honor the terms of a 1991 settlement and pay retroactive benefits to thousands of Navy veterans who served on ships off Vietnam’s coast for Agent Orange-related health problems, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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Illinois Federal Judge Vacates Public-Charge Immigration Rule
A federal judge in Chicago once again blocked enforcement of a Trump administration policy that makes it harder for immigrants to get green cards if they rely on public benefits like food stamps or housing vouchers.
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Vietnam Vets Take Fight for Agent Orange Benefits to Court
The U.S. Veterans Administration should pay retroactive benefits to thousands of Navy veterans who served on ships off Vietnam’s coast for Agent Orange-related health problems without making them file new claims, an attorney argued in court Wednesday.
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Case Over 1966 US Bomb Accident in Spain Goes Before Court
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs used flawed radiation data to deny disability benefits to veterans who responded to a 1966 plane accident involving U.S. hydrogen bombs in Spain, Yale Law School students told a federal appeals court Wednesday.
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Judge Orders Uber and Lyft to Classify Drivers as Employees
Uber and Lyft must start classifying more than 100,000 California drivers as employees instead of independent contractors and give them full employment benefits, including overtime and unemployment insurance, a state court judge ruled Monday.
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“The federal government discriminates against Americans who live in Puerto Rico,” a federal judge said, ruling that Puerto Rican citizens are entitled to the same Supplemental Security Income, food stamps and Medicare Part D benefits that are offered to mainland Americans.
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Panel Vacates Injunction Against Public Charge Immigration Rule
At odds with a slew of other federal courts, a Fourth Circuit panel ruled 2-1 Wednesday in favor of a Trump administration policy that makes it harder for immigrants to receive green cards if they rely on public benefits programs like food stamps.
Read moreCalifornia Lawmakers Blast Unemployment Agency Over Payment Delays
Out-of-work Californians and state lawmakers unleashed a torrent of criticism and frustration Thursday in a tense hearing over the Employment Development Department’s persistent failure to deliver unemployment insurance benefits, despite promises to do better.
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Hiroshima Court Recognizes Atomic Bomb ‘Black Rain’ Victims
A Japanese court on Wednesday for the first time recognized people exposed to radioactive “black rain” that fell after the 1945 U.S. atomic attack on Hiroshima as atomic bomb survivors, ordering the city and the prefecture to provide the same government medical benefits as given to other survivors.
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California High Court Upholds Law Closing Pension-Padding Loopholes
In an unanimous ruling Thursday, the California Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a 2013 pension reform law forbidding public employees from cashing in on unused sick and vacation time to increase their pension benefits, finding the Legislature should be allowed to “close loopholes and foreclose opportunities for abuse.”
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7th Circuit Blocks Feds From Enforcing Public-Charge Immigration Rule in Illinois
A Seventh Circuit panel Wednesday upheld a decision that blocked enforcement of a controversial Trump administration policy, which adds barriers for immigrants seeking green cards if they rely on public benefits, food stamps or housing vouchers.
Read moreRepublicans Fail to Overturn California’s Independent Contractor Crackdown
A GOP bid to overturn a California law that reclassifies independent contractors as full-time employees working in the gig economy fizzled in committee Thursday afternoon.
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Labor Department Defends Limits on Paid Sick Leave
The Department of Labor on Wednesday defended a new rule that New York’s attorney general says carves out an especially broad definition of health care providers who would be excluded from paid sick leave protections guaranteed under a coronavirus relief package
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Bloomberg Extends Health Insurance for Staffers Already Suing Him
Taken to court for breaking his health insurance promises to campaign staff, billionaire Mike Bloomberg says he will cover the cost of COBRA health insurance for those staffers through Election Day.
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Uber’s New Legal Strategy: Riders Employ Drivers
A law professor said Uber’s legal tactics are getting “stranger and wilder” and called Wednesday’s argument “completely ludicrous.”
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