Project Fair

This booklet guides you through the Fair Hearing process and provides you with tips on how to best prepare for and win your Fair Hearing.

Este panfleto le explicara come usted puede preparar para y ganar su Vista Imparcial.

This handout provides you with a list of your rights at a Fair Hearing.

This handout provides you with a list of documents you might take to your Fair Hearing to support your case, depending on your issue.

Este documento le dara ejemplos de tipos de evidencia que usted puede llevar a su Vista Imparcial, dependiendo de lo que se trate.

Often times, benefits recipients or applicants claim they did not receive a notice from the City Agency/HRA/Job Center prior to an action being taken on their case. This handout provides you with reasons as to why you might not have received this mail. Some of them may apply to you.

If you are claiming a medical exemption or a change from your assigned work requirement, have your treating physician fill this report out as thoroughly as possible and submit it at your Fair Hearing as documentation of your physical condition and limitations. Keep a copy.

If you are claiming a medical exemption or a change from your assigned work requirement, have your treating physician fill this report out as thoroughly as possible and submit it at your Fair Hearing as documentation of your mental condition and limitations. Keep a copy.

This list provides you with a list of legal services providers who may be able to assist you or possibly represent you at your Fair Hearing.

It is good practice to always request a copy of the evidence packet for your Fair Hearing once you have been given a Fair Hearing number. Use, this form, with the instructions, to request a copy of your evidence package, the packet of documents the agency is going to submit to the Judge the day of your hearing, as soon as you get a Fair Hearing number. Keep a copy of your fax receipt or date/time stamped copy if you deliver it in person, and take it with you to your Fair Hearing.

This hand-out includes the operation times of the Project FAIR Help Desk.

This document will assist you in understanding what your rights are when you have a disability and need HRA to give you a “reasonable accommodation” based on your disability and, it can guide you through the steps for requesting this accommodation.  And, use this form to ask HRA to help you deal with HRA, WeCare, or the Back-to-Work program.