[Empire
Justice logo]
Susan C. Antos
Susan
has been a Staff Attorney in the Albany Office of the Empire Justice Center since 1989. She provides advice, co-counseling and legal
support and back-up on welfare issues, including day care and child support
enforcement issues and the IV-D system, for 33 Legal Services Programs serving
nearly 50 counties, as well as scores of community groups. She chairs the upstate legal services welfare
task force, conducts training on a wide variety of welfare issues, and serves
as coordinator of the Legal Services Advisory Committees to the New York State
Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance.
She
is admitted to practice in New York State and the United States District
Courts, Northern and Western Districts of New York, and the United States Court
Of Appeals, Second Circuit and has litigated many cases involving the
constitutional rights of low income families, particularly Doe v. Wing,
which found the residency requirements for welfare benefits to be
unconstitutional, Broniszewski v. Perales and Schwartz v. Dolan, which
held that welfare recipients receiving support collection services have the right
to adequate notice regarding the support collected on their behalf and a right
to review the manner in which it is distributed. She has also litigated cases that have
successfully upheld the employment rights of welfare recipients who have
participated in workfare programs.
Ms.
Antos developed and currently oversees the fair
hearing bank, an on-line library of welfare fair hearings that are available
free of charge at the web site of the
She
has served the New York State Child Care Coordinating Council as Board Member
and Vice-President for over 10 years, and chaired the New York State Bar
Association, Social Services Committee, 1996-2000.
Return
to program announcement
Links to other sites, or links to this site from
any other sites, do not imply any endorsement of, or relationship with, such
other sites.
Last
updated