Grants And Loans
Get 540 To Buy Fresh Produce
Seniors making up to $22,000/year can get as much as $540 to buy fresh fruit and vegetables from roadside stands. Through the little-known Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program, seniors in 40 states can have the government help buy their produce. Simply take your issued coupons to participating roadside stands and get free fresh produce. Alabama has $1 million to distribute, while Pennsylvania has $1.5 million in funds. Find out how much your state can give you to buy food. Contact the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 926, Alexandria, VA 22302
Visit: www.fns.usda.gov/fncs
13000 Per Year Of Loan Forgiveness For Rural Physicians
This program is offered to first, second, or third year primary care medical residents who plan to practice full-time in a designated rural area in Minnesota. Selected participants are eligible for four years of loan forgiveness. During each year that a participant serves as a physician in a designated rural area for a minimum of 30 hours per week for up to four years, the ORHPC will pay directly to the participant an annual lump sum of approximately $13,000. Applications are available by contacting the Minnesota Department of Health, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, Attn: Loan Forgiveness Program Officer, P.O. Box 64975, St. Paul, MN 55164-0975; (800) 366-5424
The US Government will pay your tuition
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form determines whether you are eligible for financial aid from the government. To apply, you must be enrolled in a university program. You must also reapply for aid every year that you are in school. The FAFSA form is most easily completed online. You can download the form online from their website, or call: 1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243) 1-319-337-5665.
Visit: www.fafsa.ed.gov/
Cheap Health Insurance For Disabled Workers
A change in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 allows states to offer Medicaid to individuals who are working and who have a disability. Prior to this, states could only offer Medicaid to people with disabilities who were NOT working. The income limit goes up to $40,000 a year. Contact your state Department of Health to identify your Medicaid office. You can also check out the website of the Bazelon Center
Visit: www.bazelon.org
6000 Worth Of Free Speech Therapy For Preschoolers
It’s part of the U.S. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and for kids of any income level. Check your local school district, or your state Department of Education, or Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20202; 202-205-5507
Money to Buy or Fix Up Houses in The Pacific Islands or The Virgin Islands
Called the Community Development Block Grants/Special Purpose Grants/Insular Areas and referred to as Program #14.255 in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, this program provides grants that can be used for housing and community development in the Pacific Islands of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. Contact your local office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Is Grant Money Taxable?
The answer to this is the same answer to any good question, It Depends. Some grants are taxable and some are not. If you get a grant to start a business, I would assume you would have to treat that as taxable income but you would probably not pay any taxes on it because you would use the money to buy business deductible items like computers, office space, advertising etc. Grants and scholarships in excess of tuition, fees, books, supplies, and equipment are considered taxable income. Grants given to veterans not taxable. A lot of grants given out to pay your energy bills or help pay your mortgage are not taxable.
Get a 100000 Home For 1 plus Fix Up Money
Called the Dollar Home Sales and referred to as Program #14.313 in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, this program expands HUD’s partnership with local governments in helping to foster housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families and address specific community needs. Single family homes that are acquired in foreclosure actions by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) will be eligible for sale to local governments across the nation for $1 plus closing costs when the properties have been listed for at least six months and remain unsold. Local governments buying HUD properties for $1 plus closing costs may sell or rent them to low- and moderate-income families, to first-time homebuyers, or to groups that will use the properties to provide services such as child- care centers, domestic abuse shelters, job training centers, etc. Contact your local office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Look on the left-hand side of the page to search for your local field office.
How Popular Is Your Name
The Social Security Administration keeps track of popular baby names for every year going back to 1990. My name was the 4th most popular name last year. Don’t know if that is good or bad
Office Depot Will Tell You How To Get Money For Your Business
…I just did an hour Web seminar on the subject and you can hear a re-broadcast of the entire lecture
Get 100000 Grant From The IRS
Organizations providing low-cost legal assistance to people involved in tax disputes can apply for grants worth up to $100,000 for the calendar year. This year $6 million was awarded to 102 organizations. Grants are awarded in December for the following year. To qualify for a grant, tax clinics must be run by accredited law, business, or accounting schools whose students represent taxpayers in tax disputes with the IRS or in the courts, or by tax-exempt organizations. These groups can represent taxpayers in tax-related matters, refer taxpayers to qualified representatives and provide non-English speaking taxpayers information about their tax rights and responsibilities. Clinics may charge tax payers a small fee for legal help. For more information request application package in Publication 3319 by phone at 800-829-3676 or visit the following web sites
Reduce Your Student Loans
Get the payments smaller and reduce your interest. Get the info you need to do this from the U.S . Department of Education at
Get 3000 Worth Of Free Tutoring For Your Child
The President’s No Child Left Behind initiative offers free tutoring from private companies to school children around the country. See if you are eligible by contacting your local school board or The No Child Left Behind Program at 888-814-NCLB
Visit: www.nochildleftbehind.gov/parents/supplementalservices/index.html
Free Money For Isabel Fixups
remember it is not only FEMA (Federal Energy Management Agency) that has money to fix things up after a hurricane. There is also grant money to fix up your home anytime. Check the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. This lists all the major federal programs. Look for housing programs at the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Energy and Agriculture.
Visit: www.cfda.gov
Wondering Where To Find The Best Customers For Your Business
Or where is the best place to put up a store? Or which surrounding zip codes offer the best potential for increasing sales? Or where to get a list of all the accountants in your area? You don’t have to hire a high priced marketing consultant to get answers to questions like these. You can tap into the government’s rich vein of free marketing data collected by the Bureau of Census and other government agencies. This is where the multi-billion dollar companies get their marketing data and it’s where the high priced consultants also get it and the resell it to clients at outrageous fees. To get detailed information about data available for your state call your local Census State Data Center in your state capital or go to
Visit: www.census.gov/sdc/www/
900 Grants Programs Online FOR FREE
you can apply directly to government grants on-line. This website is a collaborative effort of 26 government agencies to put their grant information on the web. It’s certainly is not everything but it’s a good start.
Visit: www.grants.gov
Money For Teens To Learn To Build Or Fix Up Houses
Young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are not going to school may be eligible to learn skills in construction and rehabilitation of housing.
Visit: www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/youthbuild/index.cfm
Free Prescription Drugs
Drug companies will give certain people who cannot afford their medications their drugs free of charge. Your doctor will likely have to sign a form, and then the company will ship the medications to you or the doctor. I just checked the web site for Phizer and you can have an income up to $25,000 and even get Viagra for free! They are all there except Tap Pharmaceutical. You call them at 800-830-1015. Many state governments also have financial help for prescription drugs free through the Patients Assistance Program.
Money To Develop Rental Housing In Urban Areas
(14.139) Mortgage Insurance – Rental Housing in Urban Renewal Areas
15000 To Improve a New Home
The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency’s Purchasing Improvement program allows borrowers to make up to $15,000 in home improvements in conjunction with the purchase of a home with a PHFA first mortgage loan. Eligible improvements include repairs, alterations or modifications to improve the basic livability, accessibility, energy efficiency or safety of the property.
Visit: www.phfa.org
Free Help Getting Money For A Disability
can start by contacting a free service called The Clearinghouse on Disability Information, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Dept. of Education, 202-205-8241. …… for help with getting money for education and training contact Higher Education and Adult Training for People with Handicaps (HEATH), George Washington University, 800-544-3284
Visit: www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/
Save 720 A Year On Medicare
Many people do not take advantage of the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program which covers the cost of Medicare Part B premiums. There are income limits you must meet. For more information on the program, contact Medicare at 800-MEDICARE; or go to the following website. You can also learn about the Medicare Drug Card. The New York Medicare Savings Coalition also has information on how to take advantage of the underutilized program that will cover the Medicare Part B premium.
Get Extra Money to Train For a Better Job
You may be able to get up to $10,000, plus travel money, day care money, clothing allowance and more to take a few months to upgrade your skills so you can get a job that pays more. Contact your local One-Stop Career Center to see what money programs are available in your area for training.
400 For Each Course
Infant/Toddler Stipend is a $400 stipend awarded to infant and toddler teachers/providers for each course successfully completed towards the infant and Toddler Technical Certificate of Credit (TCC) at a Georgia technical college. The Infant and Toddler TCC is Georgia’s first statewide formal academic certificate for infant and toddler teachers and has been made possible with funding from DHR. For more information and a stipend application contact Quality Assist, Inc., 17 Executive Park Dr., Suite 150, Atlanta, GA 30329; 404-325-2225; 866-325-1993 (toll-free)
Visit: www.qassist.com
It Pays To Have Your Own Business
a new report by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University shows that our country has just come out of a recession. In every past recession since WWII the amount of extra money the economy made was split in the following way: about 61% went to wages for employees and about 24% went to corporate profits and income to small business owners. In the most recent recovery in 2002 and 2003, only 38% went to employee wages and 52% went to small business owners and corporate profits