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Adoption Assistance
Resources on all aspects of domestic and intercountry adoption, including adoption from foster care. Includes information for prospective and adoptive parents; information about searching for birth relatives; and resources for professionals on recruiting adoptive families, preparing children and youth, supporting birth parents, and providing postadoption services.
National Foster Care & Adoption Directory
Provides State-by-State contact information for a variety of foster care and adoption-related organizations and services including public and licensed private adoption agencies, support groups, and more.
Types of Adoptions Find information on all types of domestic and intercountry adoption, interjurisdictional placements and types of adoptive families.
The domestic adoption section includes information on foster care, kinship, domestic infant, customary (Native American), and independent/private (attorney) adoptions, as well as guardianship. The reasons children enter foster care and characteristics of children in care are also addressed.
The intercountry adoption section includes information and resources on the adoption and readoption processes, adoption from specific countries, and the Hague Convention.
Adoption Tax Credit
You may be able to take a tax credit for qualifying expenses paid to adopt an eligible child (including a child with special needs). The adoption credit is an amount subtracted from your tax liability. Although the credit generally is allowed for the year following the year in which the expenses are paid, a taxpayer who paid qualifying expenses in the current year for an adoption which became final in the current year, may be eligible to claim the credit on the current year return. The adoption credit is not available for any reimbursed expense. In addition to the credit, certain amounts reimbursed by your employer for qualifying adoption expenses may be excludable from your gross income.
Child Care Locator and Information
Whether you're just beginning your search for child care, as a new parent, or you're attempting to locate a new provider, locating high-quality child care can be tricky. In this section, you will find information related to locating high-quality child care; the types of child care available to you; and how to evaluate child care providers you visit.
Child Care Tax Credit
If you paid someone to care for a child under age 13 or a qualifying spouse or dependent so you could work or look for work, you may be able to reduce your tax by claiming the Child and Dependent Care Credit on your federal income tax return. To qualify, your spouse, children over the age of 13, and other dependents must be physically or mentally incapable of self-care.
Child Support Enforcement in Your State
The mission of the Child Support Enforcement Program is to enhance the well-being of children by assuring that assistance in obtaining support, including financial and medical, is available to children through locating parents, establishing paternity, establishing support obligations, and monitoring and enforcing those obligations.
Children's Health Insurance
You work hard to provide for your children and want to make sure they grow up strong, smart and healthy. But like many parents whose children don't have health insurance, you worry about taking care of them.
Now, you may have one less thing to worry about. Your state, and every state in the nation, has a health insurance program for infants, children and teens. The insurance is available to children in working families. Check your State Program
College Student Loans and Grants
Your source for FREE informacion from the U.S. Department of Education on preparing for and funding education beyond high school.
Crop and Livestock Insurance
USDA makes crop and livestock insurance information readily available, accessible by allowing customers to quickly calculate premiums, locate agents, and download files on demand.
To help users better understand crop and livestock insurance, USDA provides critical policy and reinsurance agreement information and details the insurance cycle from the application process to the claims process.
Disability Resources
DisabilityInfo.gov is the federal government's one-stop Web site for people with disabilities, their families, employers, veterans and service members, workforce professionals and many others. A collaborative effort among twenty-two federal agencies, DisabilityInfo.gov connects people with disabilities to the information and resources they need to actively participate in the workforce and in their communities.
Disaster Assistance for Victims
Catalog of Federal Disaster Assistance (CFDA) numbers are provided to help you find additional information on the CFDA website.
Dislocated and Laid-Off Worker Assistance
Being laid off from your job is one of the most traumatic events you can experience in life. However, you do not need to go through this transition alone. Working with your employer, there are services and resources that can be brought to you, on site at your company prior to your layoff date. These services and resources are part of a program called Rapid Response, which will customize services and resources to your needs and the needs of your company, with a goal of getting you back to work as soon as possible and minimize the disruptions on your life that a layoff will cause. The Rapid Response team will provide you the means to maintain an income (unemployment insurance), information on health insurance options, access to skills upgrading and training resources, and much more. This service is extremely valuable: the earlier services are begun, the better. Services and resources vary, so be sure to attend Rapid Response sessions when they are offered so that you are aware of the full array of benefits for which you may be eligible.
Earned Income Tax Credit
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) sometimes called the Earned Income Credit (EIC), is a refundable federal income tax credit for low-income working individuals and families. Congress originally approved the tax credit legislation in 1975 in part to offset the burden of social security taxes and to provide an incentive to work. When the EITC exceeds the amount of taxes owed, it results in a tax refund to those who claim and qualify for the credit.
To qualify, taxpayers must meet certain requirements and file a tax return, even if they did not earn enough money to be obligated to file a tax return.
The EITC has no effect on certain welfare benefits. In most cases, EITC payments will not be used to determine eligibility for Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), food stamps, low-income housing or most Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) payments.
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