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Consumer Action creates award-winning free multilingual educational guides on a wide range of personal finance topics and other subjects of interest to consumers. Many publications are available in Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese, as well as English.

Each year, we distribute more than a million of our publications through a national network of 8,000 community organizations. Through this web site, nonprofit and community-based organizations may download order forms or try online ordering of our publications. Click here to learn more about how to order.

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2019

January

• Freeze Your Credit File (Spanish): Leave ID thieves out in the cold
• Tax Basics for Earners in the ‘Sharing Economy’ (Spanish)
• Tax Basics for Earners in the ‘Sharing Economy’

2018

November

• Get Credit for Your Hard Work (2018 Tax Year): Low-income working taxpayers may qualify for the federal EITC

October

• Freeze Your Credit File: Leave ID thieves out in the cold
• Security Freeze Backgrounder: Questions and Answers About Placing, Lifting and Removing a Credit Report Security Freeze

August

• Low-income Broadband Plans

June

• Improving your financial health with FinTech: A beginner’s guide to personal finance apps
• Homeowners and renters insurance: What you need to know before and after a natural disaster
• FEMA spells federal disaster relief for homeowners and renters
• Disaster insurance and FEMA assistance (Q&A): Questions and answers for homeowners and renters
• Disaster Insurance and FEMA Assistance - Seminar Lesson Plan and Class Activities
• Disaster Insurance and FEMA Assistance - PowerPoint Training Slides
• Homeowners and renters insurance (Spanish)
• FEMA spells federal disaster relief for homeowners and renters (Spanish)
• Just Say No to Scams: A guide to protecting yourself from liars, cheats and crooks
• Just Say No to Scams (Quick Tips): Quick tips for protecting yourself from fraud
• Common Scams: Recognizing and avoiding fraud
• Just Say No to Scams - Seminar Lesson Plan and Class Activities
• Just Say No to Scams - PowerPoint Training Slides

April

• Micro business: Preparing for success (Spanish)

February

• Job Training Programs Quiz

January

• Get Credit for Your Hard Work (2018 Tax Year) (Spanish): Los contribuyentes activos de bajos ingresos pueden calificar para el Crédito Tributario por Ingreso del Trabajo (EITC)

2017

November

• Personal Bankruptcy: Your financial fresh start (Spanish)

October

• Fake News: Recognizing and stemming misinformation (Spanish)

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