Pisgah Legal Services
- Listed: May 8, 2020 7:03 pm
- Expires: 998483 days, 23 hours
Description
Pisgah Legal Services
Services Offered for Following Legal Issues:
- Money & Taxes > Repossession
- Money & Taxes > Contracts
- Money & Taxes > Scams and Unfair Sales Practices
- Health and Disability > Children with Disabilities
- Health and Disability > Special Education
- Health and Disability > Health Care Decisions
- Education and Schools > Children with Disabilities
- Education ans Schools > Students ‘ Rights
- Education ans Schools > Parental Involvement in Schools
- Education ans Schools > Special Education Rights
- Work and Jobs > Pension and Retirement Benefits
- Work and Jobs > Workers’ Compensation
- Work and Jobs > Immigration and Work Visas
- Work and Jobs > Unemployment Benefits
- Family and Juvenile > Adoption
- Family and Juvenile > Child Care
- Family and Juvenile > Child Custody
- Family and Juvenile > Termination of Parental Rights
- Family and Juvenile > Child Abuse/Foster Care
- Family and Juvenile > Health Care for Children
- Family and Juvenile > Hospice, Home and Community-Based Care
- Health and Disability > Health Care for Low-Income People
- Health and Disability > Health Care for Seniors
- Housing > Home Loans
- Housing > Foreclosure
- Immigration > Health Care for Immigrants
- Immigration > Naturalization and Citizenship
- Immigration > Political Asylum and Refugee Status
- Immigration > Immigration and Work Visas
- Immigration > Visas
- Immigration > Tax Identification Numbers
- Immigration > Benefits and Immigrants
- Farmworkers > Immigration and Work Visas
- Disaster Assistance > Disaster Relief – Public Benefits
- Disaster Assistance > Disaster Relief – Work and Unemployment
- Wills and Life Planning > Pension and Retirement Benefits
- Wills and Life Planning > Guardianship for Adults
- Wills and Life Planning > Control Over Health Care Decisions (Living Wills and Durable Powers of Attorney)
- Wills and Life Planning > Long Term Care: Assisted Living, Nursing Homes, Home Health Aides
- Wills and Life Planning > Seniors’ Banking, Credit and Home Equity Issues
- Government Benefits > Food Stamps (SNAP)
- Government Benefits > Medicaid
- Government Benefits > Medicare
- Government Benefits > Unemployment Benefits
- Government Benefits > Veterans Benefits
- Government Benefits > Social Security
- Money & Taxes > Tax Credits for Families
- Money & Taxes > Tax Forms and Publications
- Money & Taxes > Tax Identification Numbers
- Veterans and Military > Veterans Health Care
- Veterans and Military > Veterans Benefits
Who We Are
Pisgah Legal Services (PLS) primarily helps people in Buncombe, Madison, Transylvania, Henderson, Polk, and Rutherford Counties . The mission of Pisgah Legal Services is to provide effective, high-quality legal counseling and representation for low-income people in certain non-criminal matters that address clients’ basic needs; to ensure equal justice for low-income people; and to advance and protect their legal rights. Pisgah Legal Services is committed to equal justice for all people. We help children, families, and adults solve problems that affect their basic needs, such as: housing; safety from domestic abuse; health care (including Medicaid and Medicare access); subsistence income (SSI, SSDI) education. We provide legal help in non-criminal matters to people who cannot afford a private attorney.
To get help from PLS, you must:
1. Meet our low-income guidelines-we determine if you qualify by looking at income, family size, assets, and living expenses.
2. Have a problem that affects your basic needs. For more information, go to our website, www.pisgahlegal.org/
Who We Serve
- Area(s): Buncombe County, Henderson County, Madison County, Polk County, Rutherford County, Transylvania County, Yancey County
- Language(s) Spoken
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- Spanish / Español
- Cirumstances and languages in which interpreters are provided
- When needed, we provide interpretation services by one of the four staff members in our office that speaks Spanish. We provide this service both here in the office and in court.
- Income Guidelines
- The cut-off is 125% of federal poverty level if the clients are under 60; if they are over 60, then the cut-off is 187.5% of the poverty level.
If the clients are over 60, then the cut-off is 187.5% of the federal poverty level.
Sometimes clients have to pay court costs, but we always encourage them to file as an indigent, if we think that they are eligible.
- Your family’s income should be at or below the following percentage of the federal poverty level
- 125
- Is this organization accessible by wheelchair?: Yes
- Does this organization provide access for the hearing impaired?: Yes
Type of Help
- This group provides the following types of services based on your legal needs and its resources:
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- Full Legal Representation
- Brief Advice
- Pro Se Legal Clinic
- Self-Help Materials
- Description of Services
- Advocacy, Lobbying, Community Education
How to Get Help
You can contact this organization by:
Phone–
- Phone Number 828-253-0406, 800-489-6144
- Hours
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- Monday 8:30AM to 5:30 PM
- Tuesday 8:30AM to 5:30 PM
- Wednesday 8:30AM to 5:30 PM
- Thursday 8:30AM to 5:30 PM
- Friday 8:30AM to 5:30 PM
- Documents
- Please have ready all documents which are related to the legal issue at hand–court papers, contracts, warranties, etc.
- Waiting List
- At any given time we have 25-35 people waiting to be called by one of our two screeners. Therefore, we often can’t get back in touch with clients for 2-3 business days.
General Contact Information
- Address Pisgah Legal Services
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62 Charlotte Street (map)
Asheville, NC 28801
- Phone 828-253-0406
- Toll Free 800-489-6144
- Fax 828-252-8927
- Website http://www.pisgahlegal.org/
- Email info@pisgahlegal.org
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- Member Since: March 11, 2018
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