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May 2025May 2025

  • Renters’ Rights: Ending Your Lease
  • Voting in New Jersey
  • What happens if Social Security overpays you?

April 2025April 2025

  • If You Have Been the Victim of a Crime, New Jersey’s Victims of Crime Compensation Office (VCCO) May Be Able to Help
  • Renters’ Rights: Sexual Harassment in Housing
  • Accessing Free and Low-Cost Mental Health Services After Trauma

March 2025March 2025

  • Renters’ Rights: Discrimination in Housing
  • Interactions with ICE—Be Prepared
  • New Jersey Minimum Wage for 2025 Is $15.49 for Most Employees
  • Applying for NJ FamilyCare

January-February 2025January-February 2025

  • Understanding Your 2024 Taxes
  • Resources for Survivors of Human Trafficking in New Jersey
  • Renters’ Rights: Where to Apply for Affordable Rental Housing and Rental Assistance

2024 Index2024 Index

December 2024December 2024

  • Help With Your Energy and Water Bills
  • What happens to your personal belongings or mobile home after you are evicted, or move and leave them behind?

November 2024November 2024

  • Changes to SSI Rules Allow More People to Get Increased Benefits
  • Ruling Makes It Easier for Juveniles Subject to Megan’s Law to End Lifetime Registration Requirements
  • Renters’ Rights: My landlord is selling the property—what are my rights?
  • Disaster Preparedness—Reflecting on Hurricane Sandy: 12 Years Later

October 2024October 2024

  • What is the difference between a restraining order and a protective order?
  • The 19 Crimes of Domestic Violence
  • Renters’ Rights: Is your landlord trying to get back at you by trying to evict you? The Tenant Reprisal Act may apply.
  • Health Care Coverage Options for College Students
  • Free COVID-19 Test Available

September 2024September 2024

  • Eleven Common Misconceptions About Your Employee Rights
  • Understanding the Different Types of Disability Insurance and Benefits
  • Renters’ Rights: Grace Period for Rent Payment
  • Voting in New Jersey

July-August 2024July-August 2024

  • School Residency Requirements
  • Know Your Educational Rights!
  • Renters’ Rights: My Section 8 is being terminated. What can I do?

June 2024June 2024

  • Workers’ Rights in New Jersey
  • Renters’ Rights: Where To Apply for Affordable Rental Housing and Rental Assistance

May 2024May 2024

  • Know Your Rights When a Child Support Bench Warrant Is Issued for Your Arrest
  • New Protections for Domestic Workers: An Explanation and Practice Pointers
  • Renters’ Rights: Housing Protections for Victims of Domestic Violence Under Federal Law

Special Reentry Edition (April 2024)Special Reentry Edition (April 2024)

  • Five Most Common Types of Driver’s License Suspensions
  • Expungement for Victims of Identity Theft
  • Rights of People Returning Home From Jail
  • Changes to New Jersey’s Expungement Law Simplify the Filing Process
  • Know Your Educational Rights!
  • Understanding Bank Levies
  • How to Change Your Name in New Jersey

April 2024April 2024

  • Victim’s Assistance and Survivor Protection Act (VASPA)–Protection for Victims
  • The Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights
  • The Summer EBT Program in New Jersey
  • Renters’ Rights: When Your Landlord Must Notify You if the Property is in a Flood Zone and What Notice is Required

March 2024March 2024

  • Recent Changes to New Jersey’s Expungement Law Simplify the Filing Process
  • Emergency Assistance and New Time Limit Extensions
  • Renters’ Rights: Finding a Place to Rent Using a Referral Agent or Real Estate Broker
  • Voting in New Jersey
  • 2023 Index

January-February 2024January-February 2024

  • Understanding Your 2023 Taxes
  • New Jersey Minimum Wage for 2024 Is $15.13 for Most Employees
  • New Program for Mistreated Non-Citizen Workers
  • Renters’ Rights: What if my lease term expires? Am I still a tenant?

2023 Index2023 Index

December 2023December 2023

  • Nutrition Assistance Programs: SNAP and WIC
  • 2024 Social Security Cost of Living Allowance (COLA)
  • SNAP Eligibility for College Students
  • Renters’ Rights: An apartment complex has a minimum income requirement. I make enough if you include my voucher. Should I apply?

November 2023November 2023

  • Help With Your Energy and Water Bills: Many COVID Enhancements to NJ’s Gas and Electric Assistance Programs Are Now Permanent, and New Shut-Off Protections Are In Place
  • How To Change Your Child’s Name in New Jersey
  • Your Rights When Your Employer Attempts to Restrict Your Employment Opportunities through a Non-Compete and Confidentiality Agreement
  • Renters’ Rights: The Landlord Must Prove Grounds for Eviction First!

October 2023October 2023

  • Voting in New Jersey
  • Service and Support Animals in New Jersey
  • Recent Changes to Unemployment Law
  • Renters’ Rights: Tenant Protections for Domestic Violence Victims—NJ Safe Housing Act

September 2023September 2023

  • School Residency During Family Crisis
  • Five Most Common Types of Driver’s License Suspensions
  • Long-Term Care “Bill of Rights” Protects LGBTQI and HIV+ Residents from Discrimination
  • Renters’ Rights: Changes to the Landlord-Tenant Court Process

July-August 2023July-August 2023

  • School Residency Requirements
  • Know Your Educational Rights!
  • School Nutrition Programs: Your Child Could Be Eligible
  • Rights of Homeless Students

June 2023June 2023

  • Celebrating recent efforts to protect New Jersey’s LGBTQ+ community
  • How to Change Your Name in New Jersey
  • Renters’ Rights - Rental Assistance Programs: Where to Look and What to Do if a Landlord Does Not Comply

May 2023May 2023

  • Hurricane Ida Programs for Renters and Homeowners
  • Public Benefits and Immigrant Families
  • The Right to Contraceptive Care

April 2023April 2023

  • When is an eviction matter confidential?
  • Siblings’ Bill of Rights aims to preserve sibling relationships during foster care placement
  • National Crime Victims’ Rights Week is April 23-29
  • Expungement for Victims of Identity Theft
  • “One Time Only” PTI rule lifted for prior marijuana-related conditional discharges

March 2023March 2023

  • Get Ready for the Medicaid Restart
  • New Jersey Minimum Wage for 2023 is $14.13 for Most Employees
  • Renters’ Rights: What is a legal rent increase?
  • 2022 Index

January-February 2023January-February 2023

  • Understanding Your 2022 Taxes
  • Available Resources for Survivors of Human Trafficking in New Jersey
  • Sexual Extortion: What You Need To Know
  • Renters’ Rights: Change to Landlord-Tenant Court Process–What happens if you do not show up at a case management conference?

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