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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has tips to take you through options that may be an alternative to forclosure.
Some employers and landlords check into your background before deciding whether to hire you or keep you on the job, or rent to you.
When they do a background check, you have legal rights under federal law. This page talks mostly about legal rights when applying for jobs.
It’s important to know whom to contact if you think someone has broken the law related to background checks.
Learn about your housing rights under the Fair Housing Act.
Article by Paul Shipp of Kansas Legal Services
The number of Payday lenders has grown at an oddly rapid rate over the past few decades, mainly in low income areas. Typically these lenders market directly to low income borrowers, notably those on a steady, fixed, and certain income. Borrowers are often at or below the poverty level; many live off only fixed incomes and are elderly or disabled.
The following information is for people who got a Notice of Overpayment from the Social Security Administration (SSA).
The information is from a website called Learn the Law.org that is information put together by Statewide Legal Services, CTLawHelp.org and Center for Computer-Assisted Learning (CALI) to help people with common legal aid problems.
How Sealed or Expunged Court Records in Tenant & Employment Screening Reports May Illegally Cost People Jobs & Housing
From the National Consumer Law Center, June, 2022
Today, to rent an apartment or nail down a job, you almost always have to pass a background check.
You can look up your own criminal history and find out what employers and law enforcement can see when they run a background check. This is also helpful information to have if you want your record expunged.
https://www.kansas.gov/kbi/criminalhistory/
By Lonnie A. Powers Executive Director, Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation From the Huffington Post
By the CSG Justice Center
On Your Own: Guide to Your Legal Rights and Responsibilities as an Adult is prepared as a public service. It was put together by the Kansas Bar Association and the Kansas Bar Foundation.
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