The New York Legal Assistance Group has received $5 million in funding from the state’s Office of Storm Recovery to continue helping New Yorkers with their Sandy-related legal issues, the groups announced Tuesday. It is the largest lump-sum amount to be awarded to a legal services group for Sandy relief work, NYLAG said. The funds will allow NYLAG to serve 4,300 storm victims for the next year and 3,850 the year after.
“It’s wonderful. We are thrilled,” Yisroel Schulman, president and attorney-in-charge of NYLAG, said in an interview. “We needed funding for the over 2,000 cases we are now handling and to continue picking up additional cases.”
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