Financial Literacy / Asset Building Content Topic Results
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Special Collection
Special Collection
January 2022
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Other Tax Credits
This collection highlights key resources for the EITC, the Child Tax Credit, Health Coverage Tax Credits, and others, highlighting resources specific to domestic violence survivors and advocates working with survivors.
Special Collection
March 2016
Building Credit and Assets: Helping Survivors Recover from Economic Abuse
This special collection explores credit, asset building, and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), their intersections, and how they can be leveraged to better support economic justice for survivors of domestic violence.
Special Collection
December 2015
Employment and Domestic Violence
This collection includes key documents on DV as a barrier to work, DV in the workplace, employment discrimination, employment leave, job training, living wage, media messaging, minimum wage, and unemployment.
Special Collection
July 2010
Housing and Sexual Violence
This collection includes resources to assist communities in developing more effective strategies to address the multi-layered and complex relationship between sexual violence and housing.
Special Collection
May 2009
Poverty and Domestic Violence
This collection emphasizes key documents on children and poverty, how poverty is measured, the intersection of domestic violence and poverty, and media messaging.
Special Collection
January 2006
Welfare and Domestic Violence
This collection includes materials related to welfare, now known as the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), with a particular focus on the Family Violence Option and related provisions and their implementation at the federal and state level.
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Materials
- General Material
August 2022
Support Every Survivor: How Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, and Disability Shape Survivors’ Experiences and Needs
Publisher(s): In November 2020, FreeFrom launched the second round of their Safety Fund and prioritized distributing grants to queer, trans, Black, Indigenous and Latinx survivors. This report details what FreeFrom learned from the process.
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- General Material
January 2022
EITC Income Limits, Maximum Credit Amounts and Tax Law Updates
Publisher(s):Available in multiple languages, this page has the 2021 tax year income limits, maximum EITC amount and the EITC-related tax law changes. Information for tax years 2016 through 2022 is also available.
Materials
- General Material
January 2022
Topic No. 602 Child and Dependent Care Credit
Publisher(s):This page provides basic information about dollar limits, qualifying individuals, and reporting for the Child and Dependent Care Credit.
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- General Material
January 2022
EITC & CTC Outreach Toolkits
Publisher(s):Three important tax credit expansions provide a historic opportunity to reduce poverty. These toolkits support efforts to help people who are newly eligible claim these payments by filing their 2021 tax return.
Materials
- General Material
January 2022
Advance Child Tax Credit Payments in 2021
Publisher(s):The IRS has created a special Advance Child Tax Credit 2021 page designed to provide the most up-to-date information about the credit and the advance payments. You can find information about tools related to the Child Tax Credit on this webpage.
Materials
- General Material
December 2021
American Opportunity Tax Credit
Publisher(s):This page provides basic information about the AOTC, including how to qualify, which expenses are allowable, and where to access application forms.