Criminal Courts
Credit and Finance
Housing
Jobs and Hiring
Policing
Public Benefits
Across the Field
Public Benefits
People should have access to the care and support they need to lead safe and healthy lives.
The goal of this work is to help state and national partners — especially legal aid organizations and nonprofit attorneys — to interrogate, litigate against, and improve public benefits technologies (e.g., for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and SNAP). We have seen how technology can hinder or support access to benefits, as well as how implementing new technologies can hide political discretion in allocating resources. Because of this, we do proactive research into better approaches to expanding access, while helping to address immediate problems with technologies used today for benefits administration.