If You Have Federal Student Loans: Take Action Now to Protect Your Income and Your Rights! The Department of Education has made big changes to federal student loans. If you have federal student loans that you took out for yourself or for your child’s education, here are key updates you need to know. Do you…
This video gives you a glimpse into the work CLS’s staff attorneys, paralegals, social workers, and other advocates do every day so that people and their families in Philadelphia can access fundamental needs like housing, food, and employment. Hear from CLS advocates and clients about the lasting impact that CLS has had on them and…
We have new hours as of February 2, 2026. Please see below for details. You can visit our Center City and North Philadelphia offices on Tuesdays and Thursdays, or call our live hotline Monday – Thursday. We also offer help for landlord-tenant issues five days a week by phone, as well as Monday-Thursday at our Center…
For information in English ¿Qué es un título de propiedad enredado? Si usted vive en una casa que usted cree que es suya, que la trata y la paga como propia o que pudo haber heredado, pero su nombre no figura en la escritura, puede tener un título de propiedad enredado. Esto suele ocurrir…
On December 2, 2021, Michael Froehlich, Managing Attorney of the Homeownership and Consumer Rights Unit, provided the following brief testimony before City Council in support of Councilmember Gilmore Richardson’s bill to require funeral homes to share information about probating estates and avoiding tangled titles. The bill passed unanimously out of Council. Good morning. My name…
This report was written by Youth Justice Project inaugural Youth Action Board members, Deja Morgan, Alexi Chacon, and Madison Nardy. When the coronavirus was declared a global pandemic in March 2020, young people across the country became unemployed, had to adjust to a virtual learning environment, experienced loss, housing insecurity, and more with no clear…
We are so excited that the American Rescue Plan has authorized a third round of stimulus payments–offering an essential lifeline to so many people struggling during the pandemic and their dependents. We are hopeful that people, particularly non-filers, do not face the same significant obstacles getting the $1400 dependent payments like they did for the…
Community Legal Services commissioned the following study by the Reinvestment Fund to learn about the impact of debt collection cases filed in Philadelphia’s “small claims” Municipal Court against people across the City, with a particular focus on race. The report includes statistics and maps related to case filings and top filers, service of process, case…
Para información en español What is a tangled title? If you live in a house that you think you own, that you treat and pay for as your own, or that you may have inherited, but your name is not on the deed, you may have a tangled title. This often happens if: one of your relatives owned…
This information was last updated on March 03, 2021 At the end of December 2020, the government began sending people a second stimulus cash payment (sometime called an “Economic Impact Payment” or “EIP”). A prior stimulus payment of $1,200 for most adults, and $500 for most children under 17 was sent out in Spring and…
