Meet Hearing Binder — Walk into your benefits fair hearing organized, not overwhelmed

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Hearing Binder

Walk into your benefits fair hearing organized, not overwhelmed.

Every feature, from the first launch.

No account, no login, no cloud. Everything runs on your device and works fully offline — nothing in this post is hidden behind a wall.

What Hearing Binder does

Hearing Binder is the offline organizer for people who have to argue their own benefits fair hearing — after SNAP, Medicaid, or cash assistance was cut off — and who can't get a lawyer.

When you appeal a termination, an administrative law judge expects a lot from you: request the agency's evidence packet, put your documents in order, label your exhibits, name the rule the agency got wrong, write out what you'll say, and be ready for the judge's questions. Right now that whole job ships only as fill-by-hand PDFs from legal-aid groups. Hearing Binder turns that checklist into guided screens — and because your case file is full of medical records, SSNs, and household immigration status, everything stays on your phone. Nothing is uploaded. There is no account.

What ships in v1:

— Evidence-packet tracker. A dated checklist to request the agency's case file in writing and log what arrived. Enter your notice date and it computes your appeal-window deadline and your aid-paid-pending (continued-benefits) deadline. — Exhibit organizer. Add each document, get an auto-assigned Exhibit A / B / C in chronological order, attach a one-line relevance note, and tick the "3 copies — yours, agency, judge" checklist per exhibit. — "Why they're wrong" worksheet. Pick the denial-reason category (work-requirement hours, redetermination paperwork, income calculation, household composition) and the app surfaces the rule type to point to and what proof rebuts it. — Testimony script builder. Order what you'll say, opening to close, with prompts that keep you focused on why the agency's position is wrong. — Judge-question rehearsal deck. Flashcard-style anticipated questions to practice answering truthfully and concisely before the hearing. — Day-of binder view. One clean, AirPrint-ready running sheet — timeline, exhibit list, script, and deadlines — to walk in with.

No EBT balance, no deals, no benefits feed — Propel already owns that, and its appeal page is just an article. Hearing Binder owns the hour before the hearing. Free, no account, on-device.

For the adults facing work-requirement and redetermination terminations under the 2025 reconciliation law, and anyone preparing a SNAP, Medicaid, or cash-assistance fair hearing without a lawyer.

A look inside

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What's inside

Evidence-packet tracker — Dated checklist to request the agency's case file in writing and log what arrived; enter the notice date to compute the appeal-window and aid-paid-pending deadlines.
Exhibit organizer — Add each document, auto-assign Exhibit A/B/C chronologically, add a one-line relevance note, and tick the 3-copies (yours/agency/judge) checklist per exhibit.
Why they're wrong worksheet — Pick the denial-reason category (work-requirement hours, redetermination paperwork, income calc, household composition); the app surfaces the rule type to point to and what proof rebuts it.
Testimony script builder — Order what you'll say, opening to close, with prompts that keep the focus on why the agency's position is wrong.
Judge-question rehearsal — Flashcard-style anticipated questions to practice answering truthfully and concisely before the hearing.
Day-of binder — A single clean, AirPrint-ready running sheet — timeline, exhibit list, script, and deadlines — to walk in with.

Why we built it

When SNAP, Medicaid, or cash assistance is cut off, a person has roughly 10-90 days to request a fair hearing and then argue their own case before an administrative law judge — requesting the evidence packet, ordering and labeling exhibits, identifying the rule the agency got wrong, scripting testimony, and anticipati…

What makes it different

Hearing Binder is the only iOS app that prepares a person FOR a benefits fair hearing — evidence-packet request tracker with appeal-window and aid-paid-pending deadlines, chronological exhibit organizer with auto exhibit lettering and a 3-copies checklist, a denial-reason-to-rule "why they're wrong" worksheet, a testi…

Who it's for

Built for anyone who values fast, private, on-device software with a calm, focused UX.

In one line: Walk into your benefits fair hearing organized, not overwhelmed.

Try it

See the Hearing Binder app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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