Help with a Federal Agency

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Thank you for trusting me and my fantastic team to serve you all these years. It has been the honor of my life to represent you in Congress, and providing excellent constituent service has always been one of my top priorities.

I am retiring from Congress when my term is up on January 2nd, which is just a few months away. Unfortunately, we are not able accept new requests for help with federal agencies due to the amount of time that it takes to resolve these requests. We don’t want to take on a new case if we may not have enough time to see it through.

If you need help with a federal agency, we encourage you to contact Senator Tammy Duckworth’s office. Her team continues to help Illinois residents navigate federal agencies and resolve problems.

You can submit a request for help through Senator Duckworth’s website:

https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/help/help-with-a-federal-agency

If you don’t have access to a computer, you can call Senator Duckworth’s Chicago office at 312-886-3506. Her staff can mail you a Privacy Act release form.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call our office at 773-506-7100.

With love,

Jan Schakowsky

If you are contacting me regarding a legal issue:

The rules of the House of Representatives prevent me from intervening in the proceedings of any court of law (including appeal proceedings), since these are activities of the judicial branch of government. If you are having a legal problem involving the courts, you may need to consider help from an attorney.

Complete contact information for all of my offices can be found here or at the bottom of this page.

Important websites of federal agencies: 
Federal Communications Commissionwww.fcc.gov
Federal Trade Commissionwww.ftc.gov
Internal Revenue Servicewww.irs.gov
Medicarewww.medicare.gov
National Do Not Call Registrywww.donotcall.gov
Small Business Administrationwww.sba.gov
Social Security Administrationwww.socialsecurity.gov
US Census Bureauwww.census.gov
US Citizenship and Immigration Servicewww.uscis.gov
US Customs and Border Patrolwww.cbp.gov
US Department of Education/Federal Student Aidwww.studentaid.ed.gov
US Department of Statewww.state.gov
US Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairswww.travel.state.gov
US Department of Veterans Affairswww.va.gov
US Embassieswww.usembassy.gov/
US Passport Agencywww.travel.state.gov/passport
US Postal Inspectors Servicewww.usps.com/postalinspectors
US Postal Servicewww.usps.com
Visa Bulletinwww.travel.state.gov/visa/bulletin/bulletin_1360.html
U.S. Department of Educationwww.ed.gov
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developmenthttp://www.hud.gov/index.html
U.S. Department of Laborhttp://www.dol.gov/
U.S. Postal Servicehttp://www.usps.com/
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairshttp://www.va.gov/

Other Important Websites:

Free Credit Reports:

www.annualcreditreport.com

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's website on Identity Theft:

www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/consumers/hotline.html

Illinois State Board of Elections: Find Your Local Officials:

www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/DistrictLocator/AddressFinder.aspx

Below are links to various government web sites. These sites contain helpful information and contact phone numbers.