·State program
Free Legal Advice Hotline to Assist Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Free Legal Advice Hotline to Assist Grandparents Raising Grandchildren provides free legal advice and counsel to grandparents, siblings, relatives, and non-relatives raising children in Pennsylvania.
What you get
Information, Services, as recorded:
- Free legal advice, information and referrals; no monetary subsidy
Questions that decide eligibility
GiveCare prepares the questions; the program makes the decision. Bring these to the call or the application:
- 01
Does the person receiving care live in Pennsylvania?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — grandparent, sibling, other relative, or non relative — count for this program?
- 03
Does the VA disability rating meet the program’s minimum (our record lists null%)?
- 04
Do the work hours meet the minimum (our record lists null hours)?
- 05
Is there a caregiver-specific department, coordinator, or support line? Ask for it by name.
Many agencies have one that isn’t advertised on the website.
- 06
What documents do you need from us to start an application?
- 07
Is there a waitlist right now, and how long is it?
Who qualifies, in the source’s words
Where our record has a direct quote from the official source, here it is — otherwise, this is our best reading of the rule.
Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Work hours
Minimum work hours: null.
Relationship to the person receiving care
“approximately 83,000 grandparents who are among other kinship caregivers – such as aunts or uncles, adult siblings, or a close family friend – who are caring for nearly 260,000 children”
pa.gov →State residency
“A grant from the Department of Aging has enabled this service to expand from serving the Philadelphia region, to now serving all 67 counties in the Commonwealth.”
pa.gov →
How to apply
- 01
Call the PA Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Legal Line at 1-877-727-7529, staffed by attorneys at SeniorLAW Center