Updated August 7, 2026. Quick answer: 11 of our guides are built to print as clean handouts — open one, press Ctrl+P, and the navigation drops away, leaving the guide, its sources and a footer carrying the licence and the web address. They are free to print, copy and share, including commercially, with attribution. There is no form, no email wall and no registration — nothing on this page asks you for anything, and you do not need to tell us you are using them.
Who this is for
Adult protective services · benefits counsellors and SHIP volunteers · public librarians · senior-centre and area-agency-on-aging staff · hospital and hospice social workers · legal aid · credit-union and bank branch staff · police community-liaison officers · anyone helping a parent.
And the reason there is no gate: a worker who needs a handout on Thursday afternoon should not have to fill in a form and wait for an email. Self-serve is the whole design. We would rather be used than counted.
The licence, in plain language
Free to print, copy and share for any purpose, including commercially, with attribution — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). No permission needed and no need to tell us.
What that means practically: print as many copies as you like · put them in a waiting room, a library display or a training pack · translate them · adapt them for your own community, as long as you say what you changed · include them in materials you charge for. The only requirement is attribution, and it is already printed on every page — the footer carries our name and the web address, so it travels with the paper.
Formally: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. If your organisation needs a written permission letter for its records, this page is that permission.
The printable guides
Fraud and scams. The pages a police-department community officer, a bank branch manager or an adult protective services worker hands to someone who has just been called.
- Is This IRS Letter Real?
- Is It a Scam? The Five-Feature Checklist
- What to Do If You Have Been Scammed
- The Grandparent Scam
- Romance and Crypto Investment Scams
- The Advisor Imposter Scam
Benefits: SSI and Medicare. Where a wrong answer costs someone their eligibility. These are the pages benefits counsellors and senior-centre staff ask for most.
Caregiving. For the family meeting, and for the social worker sitting in on it.
After a death. Handed over rather than sent. Written to be read by someone who is not at their best.
Why a printed copy has a shelf life, and how we handle that
Most of these guides carry figures that change — benefit limits, enrolment dates, thresholds. We track every one of them in a public register that records not just the number but what makes it move: the numbers we keep current, with each figure’s source and its update cycle.
So the printed footer tells the reader to check the page online before relying on a copy, and it gives them the address to check it at. If you keep a stack in a waiting room, the honest advice is to reprint after any year-end, because most of the volatile figures move between October and January.
What we will not do
We will not put an advertisement, a referral or a lead form on a page written to be handed to someone in trouble. None of the guides above carries one, and that is not a temporary state — a handout that earns us a commission is not a handout, it is a sales call with a letterhead.
We also do not track who prints what. There is no beacon on these pages and no download counter, which means we genuinely do not know how they are being used. We have decided that is the right trade.
If something here is wrong, out of date, or would be more useful in a different shape, tell us: [email protected]. Corrections are published at our corrections page.
Related material you can also use
Reusable charts, free under the same licence with the source drawn inside each image · our statistics · the figure register · how we source and check things.
Running a session rather than handing out a page? Five workshop modules assemble these guides into hour-long outlines — facilitator notes, participant handouts and glossary extracts, on the same licence and with the same no-registration rule.
If you are writing rather than teaching: the newsroom carries the same material as quotable statistics, charts and datasets, on the same licence.
Reusing any of this? One licence covers all of it — free to reuse, adapt and republish, including commercially, with attribution. No permission needed. Figures we quote from the IRS, SSA, BLS or a state agency belong to their publishers and should be cited to them, with the data year.