Federal Register #2026-21254

LSC Updates Performance Criteria for Legal Aid Grant Recipients

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is updating the framework it uses to assess legal aid grant recipients’ service planning and delivery. - Government buyer: Legal Services Corporation (LSC); no sub-agency or office is identified. - Scope: Revisions to Performance Area One of LSC’s Performance Criteria, used to evaluate how grant recipients identify legal needs and deliver services. - Adds a criterion for strategic planning and updates guidance on needs assessments, priority setting and case acceptance, implementation, and evaluation of effectiveness. - Connects assessment, planning, service priorities, and ongoing evaluation while allowing organizations to adapt their approaches to their capacity and communities. - LSC describes the criteria as guidance, not new requirements, and plans to provide training and forums to support implementation. - Procurement items: No products, services, quantities, part numbers, OEMs, or vendors are requested or identified.

Description

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) announces revisions to Performance Area One of its Performance Criteria, used to evaluate grant recipients’ processes for identifying pressing and emerging legal needs and delivering services to address them. The revisions add a criterion on strategic planning and revise criteria relating to needs assessments, implementation of strategies, and evaluation of effectiveness. The revised criteria are intended to provide a clearer, more integrated framework while preserving flexibility and are described as guidance rather than new requirements. LSC will begin using the revised Performance Area on January 1, 2027.

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