Disclaimer
Here is a list of website links that may be helpful to you. These links lead to websites that are not maintained or updated by Legal Aid of Nebraska. Legal Aid of Nebraska cannot be held responsible for content on websites outside of the Legal Aid of Nebraska website.
Links to Other Helpful Sites
Annual Credit Report
This central site allows you to request a free credit file disclosure, commonly called a credit report, once every 12 months from each of the nationwide consumer credit reporting companies: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
Annual Credit Report Request Service
PO box 105283
Atlanta, GA 30348-5283
1-877-322-8228
TTY: 1-877-730-4104
Attorney General Consumer Protection Division
The Consumer Protection Division protects consumers from fraud and deceptive trade practices, as well as, ensures fair competition between businesses. The division enforces several laws that protect consumers from false, misleading and undesirable sales practices. A mediation service is available to consumers to help them resolve complaints against businesses.
Avoiding Scams Against Immigrants
Whether you’re renewing your Green Card, becoming a citizen, or trying to choose the right forms, immigration issues can be complicated – and it’s important to do things right. Use the resources on this page to help you spot and avoid scams, and find the right kind of help.
Board of Pardons
FAQ, instructions, policy and procedure guidelines, and pardon application. For individuals seeking a pardon for a conviction of a crime in the State of Nebraska.
Catholic Charities
Shelter and safety for battered women and their children. Assistance for victims of domestic abuse with immigration issues.
Ministry in Action:
To the battered woman and her children, we are shelter and safety.
To the poor, the hungry, the homeless, we are help and hope.
To those faced with unplanned pregnancy, we are support and guidance.
To the immigrant, we are a path to acceptance and participation.
To the person immobilized by mental illness and addictions, we are a road to recovery.
To children, families and senior citizens, we are a haven for learning, growth, and a place to come together.
To those who care about the less fortunate, we facilitate and celebrate your service.
Because we see injustice, we are a voice for social change.
Catholic Charities
+ Providing help
+ Creating hope
+ Serving all
Center for Law and Education (CLE)
The Center for Law and Education (CLE) strives to make the right of all students to quality education a reality throughout the nation and to help enable communities to address their own public education problems effectively, with an emphasis on assistance to low-income students and communities. For more than forty years, the Center for Law and Education has worked to bring about school- and district-wide change across the country in order to improve educational outcomes, particularly for low-income students.
Child Support Handbook
How is child support determined? Can it be increased or decreased? How can past due child support be collected?
Code of Federal Regulations
Federal Register Monday, August 14, 2006.
Part II
Department of Education
34 CFR Parts 300 and 301
Assistance to States for the Education of Children With Disabilities and Preschool Grants for Children With Disabilities;
Final Rule
Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties (formerly Lincoln Action Program)
Lincoln Action Program is a HUD-certified mortgage counseling center. They provide referrals for 1st time home buyers and for 2nd mortgages for home repairs, as well as help with delinquent mortgage payments. Call 402-471-4515.
Other services include: basic and emergency needs such as rent deposits, past due rent or utilities, prescriptions, homeless resettlement services, education and job skills development, holiday gift-giving program, back-to-school clothing, supplies, and immunizations, etc.
Consumer Action Website
Helpful tips about preventing identity theft, filing a consumer complaint, buying a car or home, funerals, phones, insurance and much more. Download the Consumer Action Handbook, an everyday guide to being a smart shopper or browse content on the website.
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Nebraska, Inc. (CCCSN)
Statewide housing counseling and foreclosure assistance. The CCC is a non-profit community service organization, dedicated to delivering professional consumer credit education, confidential counseling and debt management to all segments of society regardless of their ability to pay.
Consumer Credit Counseling, A Must-Do List
Fact sheet from the Federal Trade Commission. Important questions to ask when choosing a credit counselor. What to do if your credit counselor has gone out of business. A must-do list for people on debt management plans.
Consumer Scams
The Attorney General regularly informs Nebraskans about the latest frauds, deceptive sales practices, scams and crimes that threaten their security. Education is our best weapon in the fight to keep Nebraskans safe.
Counterfeit check scams
Fact sheet from the Federal Trade Commission. Congratulations, you just won a foreign lottery!... All you have to do to get your winnings is deposit the check and wire the money to the sender to pay the taxes and fees… There’s just one catch. This is a scam.
Custodia y Visita
Información básica acerca la determinación de custodia y visitación. ¿A que edad se consideran los deseos de los niños? ¿Se pueden mudar los niños fuera del estado? ¿Se pueden eliminar los derechos de visitación? ¿Un padre puede cortar visitación si el otro padre no paga su obligación mensual de mantenimiento del niño? ¿Un padre puede dejar de pagar su obligación mensual de mantenimiento del niño si el otro padre no permite visitación? ¿Los abuelos pueden ser otorgados visitación?
Custody and Visitation handbook
Basic information about how custody and visitation are determined. At what age are the children’s wishes considered? Can the children be moved out of state? Can visitation rights be eliminated? Can a parent withhold visitation if the other parent does not pay child support? Can a parent withhold support if the other doesn’t allow visitation? Can grandparents be awarded visitation?
Dating Violence
Dating violence is controlling, abusive, and aggressive behavior in a romantic relationship. If can happen in straight or gay relationships. It can include verbal, emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, or a combination. Learn how to keep yourself safer, help yourself or help someone else.
Dealing with Debt Collection Harassment
If you are being harassed by debt collectors, you should consider the following eight steps…
Department of Labor
The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements. In carrying out this mission, the Department administers a variety of Federal labor laws including those that guarantee workers’ rights to safe and healthful working conditions; a minimum hourly wage and overtime pay; freedom from employment discrimination; unemployment insurance; and other income support.
Department of Labor Workforce Investment Act Website
Includes state plans, guidance and links to law and regulations.
Direct Express Cards
Direct Express Prepaid debit card for Social Security, SSI, and other federal payments. Read more about how you can have your monthly benefits automatically deposited onto a bank debit card.
DOL Employment and Training Administration
The Employment and Training Administration seeks to build up the labor market through the training of the workforce and the placement of workers in jobs through employment services.
Domestic Abuse and Harassment Protection Orders
Guide to Domestic Abuse and Harassment Protection Orders. You should take a moment and review the information before you fill out the paperwork. The Guide will give you helpful information in deciding whether or not to proceed.
FAQs About COBRA Continuation Health Coverage
Did you lose your job? Did you have medical insurance at your job? If you answered yes to both questions, then you may be able to keep your medical insurance. This is called COBRA. You have to fill out paperwork to get COBRA. Your past employer will give you the paperwork.
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