• Moving out of a nursing home.
• Getting your medications paid for.
• Getting the health care services you need.
• Renting a place to live.
• Being evicted or having problems where you live because of your disability.
• Being discharged from a hospital into a nursing home and you don’t believe this is right place for you.
• Getting transportation to get to go places.
• Your Social Security or other benefits have been stopped.
• You need a wheelchair, TTY, mobility cane or other aids to help you be independent.
• You were denied the right to vote because of your disability.
• You want to know what your voting rights are.
• Following an accident or illness you have problems with memory, thinking, behavior, keeping a job, following directions, getting along with others or doing things the way you used to.
• You are not allowed into a store, restaurant or other community setting because you have a service animal or for other reasons related to your disability.

• Understanding rights.
• Getting access to medication.
• What to do if you believe the person may be in danger of harming himself/herself.
• Accessing mental health services.
• Ensuring benefits, such as Social Security, are restored after getting out of prison.

Also call your P&A if:

• You receive a letter from Social Security stating that you are losing your benefits because you are a fugitive felon.

• To learn about your child’s special education rights and related services such as assistive technology.
• Assistive technology is equipment or services that help your child participate in and complete school assignments and activities.
• Your child has not been evaluated for services even though you requested an evaluation.
• The school is not following the requirements of the child’s IEP (Individual Education Program).
• The school has not held an IEP meeting within the last 12 months to review your child’s IEP.
• Your child’s needs have changed and you have asked for another IEP meeting, but the school has not followed through.
• Your child is getting suspended or expelled because of behavior related to his disability or other special needs.
• You believe that the placement or services your child is receiving are not meeting her needs.
• You believe that the placement or services recommended by the school are not going to meet your child’s needs.
• Your child has been placed in an alternative school or juvenile justice facility and is not receiving the special education services she needs.
• The school has not provided the equipment such as computers or communication devices that have been recommended to assist your child in completing assignments.

• You want to know what help is available to get or keep a job.
• You want to know what will happen to your benefits if you go to work. Benefits may include:
  • Social Security
  • Medicaid
  • TANF
  • Medicare
  • Housing
  • Food Stamps
  • Transportation
• You have transportation problems getting to and from work.
• You believe you were not hired or given a different job because of your disability.
• You were not given the help you needed to do your job.
• You think people at your job are bothering you or not treating you fairly because of your disability.

This includes hospitals, nursing homes, schools, or other treatment centers.

• You believe staff is illegally taking your money.
• You are being physically harmed.
• Someone made you have sex when you did not want to.
• Someone touched your body in a way that made you feel uncomfortable.
• You have been verbally or emotionally bothered.
• You are being given medication that you don’t want to take.
• You want a discharge plan.
• Staff is not following your treatment or discharge plan.
• Your discharge plan says that you are ready for discharge, put you are still in the hospital.
• You are not receiving adequate food, clothing or health care.
• You don’t feel safe.

• You need help getting services from VR (Department of Vocational Rehabilitation Services).
• You have been told you cannot get help from VR to go to school or get a job.
• No VR plan has been developed because you and your counselor disagree about your education or job goal or other help you need.
• VR services have been denied or delayed.
• VR is not helping you find a job.
• Your VR counselor will not return your calls.
• You got a new VR counselor and she/he wants to change your plan to get a job.

• Registering to vote.
• You were denied the right to vote.
• Being provided an accessible voting machine.
• Using an accessible voting machine.
• Getting an absentee or mail-in ballot.
• Your absentee or mail-in ballot was not physically accessible.
• Trying to vote while in a residential facility or group home.
• Your state/county’s elections website is not accessible.
• Your polling place was not physically accessible.
• Bringing an assistant or helper with you to vote.
• Your right to vote has been taken away under court-appointed guardianship.
• You were not allowed into the polling place due to a service animal.
• Family, caretaker, or poll workers instructing you who to vote for.
• Family, caretaker, or poll workers trying to prevent you from voting.