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Many older Americans have difficulty meeting their monthly expenses. A fixed income can’t always cover a senior’s needs, particularly unexpected needs associated with medical problems, home and car repairs, or even an old refrigerator that doesn’t work anymore. Unfortunately, there are few resources to help vulnerable seniors get through these hard times. Affordable small loans are hard to come by. As a result, many seniors end up with very high cost small loans, including payday loans...
A loan is borrowed money which must be repaid in one or more payments. Lenders charge interest on the amount you borrow. This means that you pay back more than you receive. This is how a lender covers the cost of doing business and makes profit. The higher the interest rate, the more you must repay. You should know that the lower the monthly payment, the longer it will take you to repay the loan and the more you will pay to borrow the same amount at the same interest rate.
See the attached guides in English and Spanish for more information.
Credit and charge card fraud costs cardholders and issuers hundreds of millions of dollars each year. While theft is the most obvious form of fraud, it can occur in other ways. For example, someone may use your card number without your knowledge. It’s not always possible to prevent credit or charge card fraud from happening. But there are a few steps you can take to make it more difficult for a crook to capture your card or card numbers and minimize the possibility...
If you’ve maxed out your credit cards and you’re getting deeper and deeper in debt, chances are you’re feeling overwhelmed. How are you ever going to pay it down? Now imagine hearing about a company that promises to erase your debt for pennies on the dollar. Sounds like the answer to your problems, right?
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation’s consumer protection agency, says slow down, and consider all the steps that can get you out of the red without spending a whole lot of green.
Five Different Sample Letters to Send Debt Collectors
Wondering how to respond to a debt collector?
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created the following sample letters to help if you:
Ageing Safely has developed the following three forms to help with consumer law issues or issues dealing with money and debt:
Letter to a creditor to request debt forgiveness when a bill is owed
Letter to a creditor to dispute a charge from a bank or company
Letter to a credit bureau to dispute an item on a credit report
Please visit Ageing Safely's website for links to these interactive forms: https://agingsafely.us/free-forms/.
Utah State University has devleoped a PowerPay Tool: Helping Debtors Become Savers which guides people through the process of paying off and eliminating debt and saving.
PowerPay helps you develop a personalized, self-directed debt elimination plan. Discover how quickly you can become debt free and how much you can save in interest costs by following your debt reduction plan. Utah State University Extension is pleased to provide this debt management tool without any cost to consumers worldwide.
The National Consumer Law Center has created guides addressing your credit card and debit card protections and legal rights. For more information, please view the attached factsheets.
This guide was created by Idaho Legal Aid Services to inform tenants of the court process for a non-payment of rent eviction (unlawful detainer) case in Idaho and common defenses a tenant may raise in this type of eviction (unlawful detainer) case.
The Idaho Stateman recently posted an article related to Latinx housing evictions in Ketchum, ID. For more information, please click on the English or Spanish version of the article below:
English: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/article260975832.html
Espanol: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/article261074857.html
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