The nation’s providers of civil legal services put something new between the charts and numbers of next year’s budget request—the faces of children, seniors and veterans representing people to whom they provided life-changing help last year.
Page 14 of Legal Services Corp.’s proposed 2014 budget request to Congress bears the face of a 7-month-old infant wearing a baby helmet to form his skull. He represents a boy (identified by the pseudonym, “Ben”) whose application for the helmet his insurer denied as a “non-covered service” until legal aid took action through out-of-court negotiations.
