Additional Services and Resources
Birth Certificates
Birth certificates, marriage certificates, and death certificates are available through the Ohio office of vital statistics.
Consumer Protection
Contact the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for all of your financial product and service complaints. The Bureau accepts consumer complaints on a variety of financial products and services- including mortgages, student loans, and credit cards- through its toll-free number, website as well as mail and fax. Consumer response specialists review all incoming complaints, forward complaints to the appropriate company for review and resolution, and work to ensure that complaints are handled appropriately.
In addition to consumer complaints, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers tools like “Paying for College” module on making sound financial decisions about higher education, and “AskCFPB,” which is an interactive, user-friendly database of over 900 plain-language answers to common consumer financial questions.
Learn more at ConsumerFinance.gov or contact the CFPB.
Disaster Preparedness
Information on preparing for earthquakes, hurricanes, and other disasters.
Federal Business Opportunities
Learn about the procurement procedures for doing business with the Federal government.
Government Resources
A list of government websites, offices, courts, etc. in one convenient place.
Grants and Federal Domestic Assistance
There are thousands of federal grant programs that your organization might be eligible for and I am often asked about what is available. Learn about the available resources to help eligible grant seekers find information on federal grants, loans, and financial assistance for projects, as well as on private funding.
Identity Theft
Information on how to protect your identity from being stolen.
Jobs
Resources for Ohio residents who are seeking employment.
Missing Children
Please help us find these Ohio missing children.
Student Financial Aid
Learn about the process of locating and applying for financial aid.
Unclaimed Property
Ohio is holding huge amounts of unclaimed property. Is some of it yours? Common forms of unclaimed property include savings or checking accounts, stocks, uncashed dividends or payroll checks, refunds, traveler’s checks, trust distributions, insurance payments or refunds and life insurance policies, annuities, certificates of deposit, customer overpayments, utility security deposits, mineral royalty payments, and contents of safe deposit boxes.