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The United States Mint's website provides free educational resources for educators, parents, and kids. The site includes free educational resources including class activities, lesson plans, and information on how to bring coins into the classroom. For youth, the H.I.P. Pocket Change™ Web site is dedicated to promoting lifelong pleasure in coins and coin collecting. Games, informational features, and interactive animated cartoons, successfully combine government, technology, and education in a new and exciting way.

This website helps you to identify agencies that will provide information, counseling assistance with homeownership issues including financing and mortgages. If you are facing foreclosure, use this site to identify a local foreclosure avoidance counselor.

Retirement is expensive. Take charge of your financial future and start preparing now. This website outlines ten steps to help you start saving for retirement. The site is presented in English and Spanish.

Women face many challenges in saving for retirement. This website highlights some of those issues and provides tips to get started. The site is presented in English and Spanish.

Providing for health care is an important part of retirement. This website and publication provides information on the circumstances when employer-provided retiree health benefits can be reduced or terminated and the importance of reviewing your plan documents.

If you are saving for retirement at work, this website will help you understand your plan and the federal law that governs your plan. It explains what information you should review periodically and where to go for help with questions. This website is presented in English and Spanish.

Sign up for direct deposit for your Social Security benefits so you’ll receive your money even if you can’t get your mail.

This website features a simple on-line tool about long-term health care services, how much you can expect to pay for long-term care, and what financing options are available to support your long-term care costs. The results of the Long-Term Care Planning tool are general in nature and not intended to replace comprehensive financial and other long-term personal planning.

Federal and state governments join together to offer health insurance coverage for children through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). These programs serve families who are not able to afford health insurance coverage in the private market or do not have coverage available to them. Every state’s program is unique and has individual income eligibility rules and benefits covered. This website is designed to connect individuals to their state's programs and resources.

This site provides information and resources to help you and your family plan for future long-term care (LTC) needs. At least 70 percent of people over age 65 will require some long-term care services at some point in their lives. And, Medicare and private health insurance programs do not pay for the majority of long-term care services that most people need - help with personal care such as dressing or using the bathroom independently.  Planning is essential for you to be able to get the care you might need.