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In 2012, the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice launched the Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable (Roundtable) to raise Federal agencies’ awareness of how civil legal aid can help low income people.
Ways the Federal agencies can help include:
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Here are the slides from the free webinar KLS held on Driver's License Issues in Kansas. You can download them below.
Here is a video of the webinar.
Gov. Laura Kelly on Tuesday, April 18, signed a bill removing mandatory jail time for driving with a license suspended or revoked for failing to appear in court on a traffic ticket or failing to pay a traffic fine.
Can't afford your traffic tickets but still need to drive? Kansas lawmakers consider help
Jason Alatidd, Topeka Capital-Journal September 8, 2023
Kansas lawmakers are looking for ways to help low-income people avoid losing their driving privileges if they can't afford to pay a traffic ticket.
By Micah Tempel, Director, Suspended to Reinstated Project, KLS.
More than 200,000 Kansans have a suspended driver’s license, and the vast majority of these suspensions — 150,000 — have nothing to do with dangerous driving or posing a public safety risk on the roads. Instead, an inability to pay a traffic fine or missing a court date leads most Kansans to a suspended license, compounding their economic hardships by making it illegal for them to drive to work, to the grocery store, and to take their children to school.
This client-focused handout contains information and tips about how to handle a call from a collector or someone collecting a debt on another's behalf.
Here are two helpful videos on dealing with debt collection, and how to talk with a debt collector.
This brochure talks about your options as a consumer when debt or debt collection becomes too much to handle.
Nearly all of the 2 to 3% of the households who are behind on their bills were current until they faced a sudden blow to their wallets. Such blows include job loss, illness or other setbacks. Sometimes it is tempting to give in to the daily appeals in their mailbox to borrow, borrow, borrow.
To help consumers, the feds and states have laws to stop abuse, deceit and unfair practices by debt collectors.
Find out more in the brochure below.
Rule #1: Prioritize Debts Whose Non-Payment Immediately Harms Your Family
Non-payment of certain debts have sudden and dire consequences for your family. Deal with these debts immediately—either pay these debts first or otherwise follow advice here on how to manage these debts.
Never pay smaller, low priority debts just because you cannot keep up with high priority debts—“If I can’t pay my mortgage, at least I will keep up with my credit cards.” This is a bad idea.
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