Nebraska Medicaid
Nebraska faces a class action over its Medicaid expansion plans and its work and public service requirements for some receiving benefits.
Read moreNebraska faces a class action over its Medicaid expansion plans and its work and public service requirements for some receiving benefits.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreFemale soccer players should soon get their maternity rights protected under new employment rules announced Thursday by FIFA.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreUber 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.
Read more“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.
Read moreAt 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 moreOut-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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreIn 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.”
Read moreA 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 moreA 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.
Read moreThe 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
Read moreTaken 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.
Read moreA law professor said Uber’s legal tactics are getting “stranger and wilder” and called Wednesday’s argument “completely ludicrous.”
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