Cases Closed by 1997 Legal Services Corporation Recipients


Income Brief Extended Total
Family Housing Maint. Consumer Other Service Service Closed PAI
Cases % Cases % Cases % Cases % Cases % Cases % Cases % Cases Cases
New Jersey
 
Somerset-Sussex Lgl Svcs 48 30 42 26 29 18 27 17 15 9 54 34 107 66 161 53
Lgl Aid of Morris County 47 26 30 17 18 10 25 14 61 34 113 62 68 38 181 23
Bergen County Lgl Svcs 46 19 53 22 72 29 55 22 19 8 148 60 97 40 245 56
Hunterdon County Lgl Svcs 118 33 68 19 59 16 73 20 44 12 249 69 113 31 362 60
Lgl Aid of Mercer County 114 29 137 35 70 18 71 18 5 1 302 76 95 24 397 74
Union County Lgl Svcs 73 12 253 40 197 32 74 12 28 4 468 75 157 25 625 110
Hudson County Lgl Svcs 212 29 291 39 117 16 99 13 18 2 437 59 300 41 737 68
Ocean-Monmouth Lgl Svcs 255 30 216 25 131 15 189 22 57 7 457 54 391 46 848 106
Middlesex County Lgl Svcs 366 36 371 36 101 10 103 10 78 8 841 83 178 17 1,019 68
Warren County Lgl Svcs 364 31 231 20 79 7 93 8 394 34 556 48 605 52 1,161 54
Cape-Atlantic Lgl Svcs 757 22 1,163 33 675 19 611 17 289 8 2,414 69 1,081 31 3,495 552
Passaic County Lgl Aid 408 10 1,429 36 1,649 42 267 7 179 5 2,845 72 1,087 28 3,932 117
Camden Regional Lgl Svcs 957 19 2,157 42 993 19 554 11 467 9 3,989 78 1,139 22 5,128 143
Essex-Newark Lgl Svcs 2,000 22 3,823 42 1,902 21 997 11 320 4 7,338 81 1,704 19 9,042 2,007
 
Totals for State 5,765 21 10,264 38 6,092 22 3,238 12 1,974 7 20,211 74 7,122 26 27,333 3,491
 
 
Other Cases include cases in the Education, Employment, Juvenile, Health, Individual Rights, and Miscellaneous categories.
Brief Service includes Counsel & Advice, Referrals after Assessment, Cases with Insufficient Merit, Clients Withdrawing, and Changes in Eligibility.
Extended Services includes Court Decisions, Agency Decisions, Negotiated Settlements (with and without Litigation), and Other case closures.
(For further information about case closing definitions, please refer to the LSC Case Service Report Instruction Handbook.)

Legal Services Corporation

April 30, 1998
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