First Step Website

Credit

• Check your credit report for FREE using the site below: FREE credit report (once a year): https://www.annualcreditreport.com/index.action

 

Taxes

• File your taxes for FREE: go to http://www.irs.gov/ and click on “free file”on the right hand side.

        or

• During tax season, call your Job Specialist and ask for information about coming into Goodwill to get FREE tax filing help from a tax professional

 

FREE Financial Counseling

• FREE Budget/Credit Counseling from Money Management International: Call: 888-812-5334 or go to http://www.moneymanagement.org/ (recommended by the First Step Program and the Department of Transitional Assistance: DTA)

 

 

Free Stuff

• Go to www.freecycle.org and get FREE stuff (furniture, washing machine, clothes, electronics): the only catch is that YOU have to pick it up