Free legal services are available to low-income South Carolinians affected by Hurricane Matthew and the flooding that followed.
South Carolina Legal Services – a non-profit corporation funded in part by the S.C. Bar Foundation and local United Way agencies – offers legal assistance if eligible residents have been denied benefits or have other non-criminal legal issues that are the result of hurricane damage.
SCLS is offering several free pamphlets with information about:
- Legal problems often faced by disaster survivors: legal-problems
- Scams that often follow disasters: scams
- Homeowners’ disaster information: homeowners
- Renters’ disaster information: renters
- Disaster unemployment assistance: unemployment
- Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance: fema
- Home repair tips: home-repair
- Other SCLS services: other-services
For more information, go to sclegal.org or call 888-346-5592.
