Government
Sep. 3, 2016
Alameda processing food stamp applications faster after lawsuit
One firm's pro bono efforts resulted in a 750 percent increase in Alameda County's food-stamp processing timeliness.
Thomas V. Loran III
Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw & Pittman LLP
PO Box 2824
San Francisco , CA 94126
Fax: (415) 983-1200
Email: thomas.loran@pillsburylaw.com
Univ of Illinois COL; Champaign IL
In May of last year, I received a mass email from the executive director of the Western Center on Law and Poverty (WCLP), urgently seeking help with Alameda County's failure to timely process thousands of applications for benefits under California's CalFresh program, which are popularly known as food stamps. WCLP had learned that, in clear violation of both state and federal law, Alameda County was not timely processing thousands of applications for food stamps, meaning people were going h...
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