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National list of low-income tax advocacy organizations.
FindLawNet is locally-based legal news and information network
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Employment
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Educational fact sheets for workers on employment rights and access to benefits including employment discrimination, family and medical leave, unemployment benefits, wage and hour laws, and worker’s compensation.
A manual for job seekers with past criminal convictions from the HIRE network.
How to file an employment discrimination claim.
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Employment-LS
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Free legal representation at unemployment insurance hearings provided by law students in New York City and Long Island
Legal advice and representation for low-wage and unemployed workers.
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Family Law/Domestic Violence
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Assistance with access to health-related services for low income and indigent populations, and assisting immigrants to adjust.
Representation in the following areas: Orders of protection, Custody/visitation, Child/spousal support, Property distribution, Divorce, DV-related immigration, housing, and public benefits issues.
Easy-to-understand legal information and resources for women living with or escaping domestic violence.
Information for survivors.
Provides compensation to victims of crime.
Information for domestic violence survivors in New York State.
Information for sexual assault and rape survivors in New York State.
AVP serves lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and HIV-positive victims of violence, hate-motivated violence (including HIV-motivated violence), domestic violence, and sexual assault.
Information and services for domestic violence survivors in one location – survivor should live in or have a court case in Brooklyn.
A resource center for domestic violence survivors seeking safe affordable housing in New York City.
Advocacy for Haitian women and girls.
Develops and advances strategies, policies, and responses that prevent sexual violence and limit its destabilizing effects on victims, families and communities.
Services for South Asian survivors of domestic violence.
An organization for and by survivors of domestic violence.
LIFT provides free legal information and support to unrepresented litigants involved in the NYC Family Court system. LIFT's core goal is to empower litigants to successfully represent themselves in court.
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Family Law/Domestic Violence-LS
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Free clinic for filing uncontested divorces.
Legal representation to low-income and indigent victims of domestic violence in orders of protection, custody, support, and divorce proceedings.
Provides legal advice, assistance, and representation to battered women in cases involving divorce, child custody/visitation, child and spousal support, immigration, and prosecution of batterers in criminal matters.
Serves youth experiencing dating violence.
Legal and clinic services to victims of domestic violence.
Free legal services for low-income women in matrimonial, family and immigration law.
Free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender nonconforming low-income people and people of color.
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forclosurePrevention
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General Legal Aid
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LawHelp helps low and moderate income people find free legal aid programs in their communities, and answers to questions about their legal rights.
The Resilience Advocacy Project advances innovative advocacy and youth empowerment strategies to build resilience - the ability to overcome adversity - in low-income children and youth. RAP provides legal information, advice, and preventive advocacy plans to low-income young people on a range of issues, including education, public benefits, child care, employment, teen parenthood, health, and more.
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Government Benefits
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Group Representation
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HIV
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HIV-LS
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Housing
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FUREE is a Brooklyn-based, multi-racial community organization. They organize low-income families to change the system, using use direct action, leadership development, community organizing and political education.
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Pension Benefits
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The Administration on Aging has been involved in pension issues since the 1992 amendments to the Older Americans Act. The AoA pension information and counseling projects provide free pension and retirement savings plan counseling and assistance to older individuals.
Founded in 1976, the Pension Rights Center is the nation's only consumer organization dedicated solely to protecting and promoting the retirement security of American workers, retirees and their families.
The EBSA protects the integrity of pensions, health plans, and other employee benefits. The agency assists workers in getting the information they need to exercise their benefit rights, assists plan officials to understand the requirements of the relevant statutes in order to meet their legal responsibilities, develops policies and regulations that encourage the growth of employment-based benefits, and deters and corrects violations of the relevant statutes through strong administrative, civil and criminal enforcement efforts to ensure workers receive promised benefits.
PBGC is a federal corporation created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. It currently protects the pensions of nearly 44 million American workers and retirees in 30,330 private single-employer and multi-employer defined benefit pension plans.
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Special Education
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SSI/Disability Rights
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Tax
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List of free tax assistance centers by borough.
Information about tax credits, taxpayer rights, and free tax preparers throughout New York City.
Free tax preparation and electronic filing service.
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