NYC Department of Consumer Affairs is providing FREE debt and financial counseling. Dont miss out!

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New York City’s Department of Consumer Affairs provides FREE services to help you take control of your debt, improve your credit, deal with debt collection, create a budget, open a bank account, and much more. One-on-one financial counseling is provided for FREE by professional counselors in person or by phone in English, Spanish, [...]

Brrr, It’s Getting Chilly Outside: Residents of NYC Learn the Heatings Rules for Your Apartment

The City Housing Maintenance Code and Multiple Dwelling Law requires building owners to provide heat and hot water to all tenants. Building owners are required to provide hot water 365 days per year at a constant minimum temperature of 120 degrees Fahrenheit.  Between October 1st and May 31st, a period designated as “Heat Season,” building [...]

Are you getting more Spam emails? Learn some easy tips to protect yourself

Spam traffic keeps going up—in fact, according to some computer security experts, it’s about double what it was a year ago.
To make matters more serious, these days most spam emails come with malicious attachments.  It’s important to not download or open any attachment if you are not SURE who it’s coming from. Cybercriminals are very [...]

The Struggle Against Fraudulent Foreclosure Rescue Companies

Two recent decisions by Long Island Judges are finally slowing down the scam operations of so-called foreclosure rescue companies. Two companies, Express Home Solutions (aka Home Preserve Law Group) and Homesafe America have been issued restraining orders to stop them from, according to one judge, using  “fast-talking salespeople and masterfully deceptive websites”  to defraud more [...]

New Treasury Rule Protects Consumers–Read On!

Two weeks ago the Treasury Department announced a new rule. Senior citizens with social security, veterans and disabled people with government benefits will no longer be victimized by creditors who freeze their bank accounts and drain their resources. Up to now, even though these kinds of federal benefits are legally protected from seizure, in reality a creditor [...]

Housing Discrimination on the Rise!

The Wall Street Journal recently reported a rise in complaints about housing discrimination in New York City. This is especially true for low-income tenants who receive a government subsidy to use for rent. Even though the City Council voted to prohibit discrimination in housing based on the tenant’s source of income, complaints to the New [...]

Self-Help Legal Forms!

LawHelp/NY and the New York State Office of Court Administration now make available a number of free online interactive self-help programs that make it easier to submit legal papers in court if you don’t have an attorney.
The interviews are designed to ask “leading questions” to help ensure that what you submit in court is legally [...]

Do you need help with your legal problem?

You can go to LiveHelp, the online chat feature of LawHelp/ny. Launched in February 2010, in English and Spanish, a trained navigator can lead you to “Know Your Rights” legal information and referrals to free legal services (income requirements apply).  Because of volunteer help from pro bono law students and [...]