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We're writing to let you know about our COVID-19 Educational Project, designed to provide consumers—particularly low- and moderate-income workers, limited-English speakers and other hard-hit communities—with essential information and valuable resources to help them cope with the financial fallout of the pandemic.

As part of our project, Consumer Action is publishing short guides (fact sheets) and producing webinars answering many of the critical questions raised by the pandemic—for example, what pandemic-related protections does the Fair Housing Act provide for tenants, how can you recognize and avoid pandemic-related scams, where can undocumented immigrants (who are ineligible for stimulus payments) turn for financial assistance, and what healthcare and estate planning steps should be taken now.

The initial year-long project will result in a series of multilingual fact sheets—each available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean—and 14 webinars. (The recorded webinars already available on our project page include estate planning, fair housing and scams/identity theft.) We'll be regularly updating our core resource guide—Resources for consumers impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak—to reflect new or modified assistance programs, laws, agency policies and business practices intended to help consumers weather the crisis.

The resource guide, topic-specific fact sheets and webinars all can be accessed, at no charge, through the COVID-19 Educational Project webpage.

Consumers and community educators are encouraged to visit the project webpage frequently to read the latest updates to the general resource guide, download newly published fact sheets, and view recent webinars.

Major funding for the COVID-19 Educational Project was provided by Wells Fargo Foundation. Additional support came from AT&T, Bank of America, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase and Square.