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Social Security Advocacy

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Disability Law Center - Massachusetts

The DLC provides advocacy, information, or referral for requests for disability related advocacy.

In the Boston area call:
Phone: (617) 723-8455/(800) 872-9992
TTY: (617) 227-9464/(800) 381-0577

In western Massachusetts:
Phone: (413) 584-6337 / (800) 222-5619
TTY: (413) 582-6919

Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation (MLAC)

MLAC provides legal services to low-income people (up to 125% of the federal poverty level) throughout Massachusetts. Programs include the Medicare Advocacy Project (MAP) for low-income people improperly denied Medicare coverage, and the Disability Benefits Project (DBP) for low-income people with disabilities who have been improperly denied federal SSI or SSDI benefits. Additional service areas include General Support (family law, housing, income maintenance, health care access, consumer problems), and the Battered Women's Legal Assistance Project.

For more information:
11 Beacon St., Suite 820 (Map)
Boston, MA, 02108 US
Voice: (617) 367-8544
Fax: (617) 367-8815
Mass Legal Help website

Legal aid programs are also available by region:

Eastern Massachusetts

  • Greater Boston Legal Services (MLAC) (Map)
    197 Friend Street
    Boston, MA, 02114 US
    Voice: (617) 371-1234/(800) 323-3205
    Fax: (617) 371-1222
    TTY: (617) 371-1228
    www.gbls.org
  • Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau (Map)
    24 Crescent Street, Suite 202
    Waltham, MA, 02453-4088 US
    Voice: (781) 893-4793
    Fax: (781) 893-4799
  • Community Legal Services & Counseling Center (Map)
    One West Street
    Cambridge, MA, 02139 US
    Voice: (617) 661-1010
    Fax: (617) 661-3289
    www.clsacc.org
  • South Middlesex Legal Services (Map)
    54 Waverly Street
    Framingham, MA, 01702 US
    Voice: (508) 620-1830
    Fax: (508) 620-2323
    www.ncla.net
  • Volunteer Lawyers Project (LSC) (Map)
    29 Temple Place, Suite 300
    Boston, MA, 02111 US
    Voice: (617) 423-0648
    Fax: (617) 423-0061
    www.vlpnet.org/

Central and Western Region:

  • Legal Assistance Corporation Of Central Massachusetts (MLAC) (Map)
    405 Main Street, 4th Floor
    Worcester, MA, 01608 US
    Voice: (508) 752-3722
    Fax: (508) 752-5918
    www.livejustice.org
  • Western Massachusetts Legal Services (MLAC) (Map)
    127 State Street, 4th Floor
    Springfield, MA, 01103-1944 US
    Voice: (413) 781-7814
    Fax: (413) 746-3221
    www.wmls.org
  • Massachusetts Justice Project (LSC) (Map)
    57 Suffolk Street, Suite 401
    Holyoke, MA, 01040 US
    Voice: (413) 533-2660/(800) 639-1209
    Fax: (413) 535-1774
    TTY: (413) 533-2660
    www.neighborhoodlaw.org

Northeast Region:

  • Neighborhood Legal Services (MLAC) (Map)
    37 Friend Street
    Lynn, MA, 01902 US
    Voice: (781) 599-7730
    Fax: (781) 595-2022
    www.neighborhoodlaw.org
  • Childrens Law Center Of Massachusetts (Map)
    P.O. Box 710
    Lynn, MA, 01903 US
    Voice: (781) 581-1977
    Fax: (781) 598-9364
    www.ncla.net
  • Merrimack Valley-North Shore Legal Services (LSC) (Map)
    35 John Street, Suite 302
    Lowell, MA, 01852 US
    Voice: (978) 458-1465
    Fax: (978) 458-3481
    www.mvlegal.org

Southeast Region:

  • South Coastal Counties Legal Services (MLAC)
    P.O. Box 2507
    Fall River, MA, 02722-2507 US
    Voice: (508) 676-5022
    Fax: (508) 676-8657
    www.sccls.org/
  • New Center For Legal Advocacy (LSC) (Map)
    257 Union Street
    New Bedford, MA, 02740 US
    Voice: (800) 244-9023
    www.ncla.net

Project Impact and BenePLAN

Project Impact and BenePLAN offer benefits counseling, planning and outreach services to people with disabilities on Social Security. Project IMPACT is housed at the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; BenePLAN is run by Resource Partnership, which is a program of UMass Medical School. Both programs are funded by the federal Social Security Administration through the Work Incentive Assistance Program (WIPA). The programs can counsel people with disabilities about work incentive programs (i.e. how to make use "set asides" to purchase AT), and about how to get employment without losing needed public benefits (such as health insurance).

Joseph Reale, Director Project IMPACT
(617) 204-3854 Voice
(617) 204-3834 TTY
Joseph.Reale@mrc.state.ma.us

Barbara Lee, supervisor BenePLAN
Phone: 508.856.2659
Fax: 508.856-6607
info@beneplan.org or
barbara.lee@umassmed.edu