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A new website offers online tools to help Americans brought to this country as children apply for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). This program, announced in June by the Obama administration, gives a two-year, renewable reprieve from deportation to undocumented immigrants who came to the United States before age 16, are in school, high school graduates or military veterans, and meet certain other criteria. The site, Own the Dream or Únete al Sueño in Spanish, will offer assistance to the hundreds of thousands of young immigrants eligible for this opportunity to stay in America to further their education and contribute to the economy.
Philadelphia Legal Assistance has developed seven new online document assembly forms for pro se litigants in Pennsylvania family courts. These forms were developed With funding from a Legal Services Corporation Technology Initiative Grant and are available now on PALawHELP.org.
Self-represented litigants can go to the PALawHELP.org web site, answer questions in a user-friendly guided interview, and, at the end of the interview, download a word processing file with a completed court document that they can print out and file in court.
The Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) has announced that a veterans workshop sponsored by the PA CareerLink® of Beaver County will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 11, at the PA CareerLink® of Beaver County (located in the Beaver Valley Mall on Route 18) in Monaca.
Department of Public Welfare Deputy Secretary Barbara Minzenberg highlighted Governor Tom Corbett’s $3 million budget proposal to fund the Rising STARS initiative, which targets resources to support quality early child care and learning, specifically for at-risk children at an event held at Small World II, a Keystone STARS 4-star child care facility in Pittsburgh.
The U.S. Department of Labor, in cooperation with the Social Security Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has announced the launch of an online toolkit to help workers identify key issues related to retirement planning.
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