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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 10, 2015

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has asked Congress for $486.9 million for Fiscal Year 2016, approximately the same level of funding requested for the past two years, the agency reports. In addition to $451.3 million for basic field grants that fund the delivery of civil legal assistance to low-income Americans, the request also includes $5 million for the Technology Initiative Grants program, $5 million for the Pro Bono Innovation Fund, $1 million for student loan repayment assistance to legal aid lawyers, $19.5 million for management and grants oversight and $5.1 million for the Office of the Inspector General. Congress appropriated $375 million for LSC last year. At the height of its funding, the agency received $420 million.