Disability Rights Louisiana

Protection and advocacy for beneficiaries with representative payees: this program conducts reviews on representative payee performance on behalf of the social security administration (ssa). The program provides oversight to representative payees and their services to beneficiaries as well as giving them support to better understand their role and responsibilities.

Protection & advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities (padd): primarily legal work and policy work that is performed on behalf of an individual or group of individuals who have a diagnosis of intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.

Other program services, including client assistance program (cap), protection & advocacy for individual rights (pair), financial access inclusion and resources (fair), protection & advocacy for beneficiaries of social security (pabss), louisiana department of justice supported independent living advocacy program (silap), work incentives planning & assistance (wipa), protection & advocacy for individuals with mental illness (paimi), protection & advocacy for individuals with traumatic brain injury (patbi), protection & advocacy for assistive technology (paat), protection & advocacy of voter assistance (pava), and interest on lawyer's trust account (iolta) - louisiana bar foundation.