The AFL-CIO Community Services Network assists union members union stricken by natural disaster, financial hardship, illness, unemployment or other difficulties.
The Working for America Institute has information, tips and resources for surviving layoffs. It includes downloadable brochures about the types of help unions and state and federal agencies can provide and other useful information.
Union Privilege offers a wide range of help to working families with immediate and long-term needs. Special assistance is available from Union Privilege’s credit card, loan, mortgage and real estate, life and accidental death insurance, education loan and car rental programs. Union Privilege also offers short-term, interest-free disaster assistance loans. The Union Plus credit card and Union Plus loan programs have established layoff help lines for union members who may have difficulty with their payments due to layoffs.
Union Plus Credit Card Layoff Help Line: 1-800-551-2873.
, an initiative of the The National Employment Law Project, provides resources for workers and communities hard hit by the economy.
Workers’ Compensation Resources
· Workers' Compensation Notes.
· State and Federal Smallpox Compensation.
· Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program.
· The Department of Labor delivers benefits to eligible employees and former employees of the Department of Energy, its contractors and subcontractors or to certain survivors of such individuals, as provided in the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act.
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