Plan for Life Overview
Plan for Life (also known as Katz Care in honor of Larry Katz, an attorney and ALS patient who helped Ride for Life become a legal not-for-profit corporation) provides grants for free limited legal services for people living with ALS.
Plan for Life is designed to assist ALS patients who are facing critical legal issues, such as dealing with health care providers and insurers, applying for disability benefits, financial matters, or protecting an individual's most personal end of life decisions. Although serious and timely legal decisions must be made, not all patients with ALS can easily afford the cost of hiring an attorney. Therefore, it is our hope at Ride for Life, Inc., that these legal assistance grants will aid in easing one source of worry or tension for those living with ALS.
These grants of up to $750 each are awarded several times a year. The types of legal services Plan for Life envisions supporting include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Simple estate planning - to arrange your property so that you get the maximum benefit from any tax or estate law and also to carry out your wishes regarding how you want your property distributed
- Living wills - an instrument that communicates your decision about withholding life sustaining medical treatment
- Durable financial powers of attorney - an instrument that allows another person to manage your finances if you are unable to do so
- Health care powers of attorney or proxies - an instrument that allows another person to communicate or make decisions about your health care and medical treatment in the event you are unable to do so
- Medicaid/Medicare compliance - to assist you in obtaining your benefits under these programs
- Disability contests - to assist you in obtaining Social Security Disability benefits or other disability benefits
You will have 4 opportunities a year to apply for a grant with a new application period starting every 3 months.
