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What Is A Credit Union and What Makes Them Better Than Banks?

Articles

• Managing Your Money: Simple steps you can take to manage your money.

• Measure Your Wellness: Find the information you need to make informed choices about your money.

• Understanding Your Credit: Your credit matters because it affects your ability to get a loan, a job, housing, insurance, and more. It’s important to understand what your credit is and how to protect it.

• Top 9 Personal Budget Software Apps

• Dealing With Debt: Learn what you can do to reduce your debt and free up money for your goals.

• Thinking of Buying a Home? Here are some Dos and Don’ts.

Tools

• 4 Budget Tools You Can Master in One Hour or Less

• Financial Preparedness: Learn more about how you can prepare for unexpected events. Features the Emergency Financial First Aid Kit free download in English and Spnish. 

• Savings Fitness (PDF, Download Adobe Reader): A publication and worksheets to help you develop a plan to meet your financial goals, including establishing a budget, managing debt, and determining a target retirement saving rate.

• Top 10 Best (and FREE) Online Budgeting Tools

Websites

• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

• Council for Economic Education

• Credit Union National Association (CUNA)

• High School Financial Planning Program (HSFPP)

• National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE)

• National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)

  For Children and Young People:

  • Money as You Grow: Learn more about how you can help children develop money skills.

  • Hit the Road Financial Adventure - NCUA: Take a virtual road trip with friends across the country but watch out for those challenges along the way. Be sure to save and spend your money wisely!

  • World of Cents Value of Money Game - NCUA: World of Cents is a fun and engaging, kid-friendly game for ages 5 and up designed to help teach the value of money through the concepts of earning, saving and spending money, while incorporating basic math concepts.

  • Money 101 Quiz: How well do you know the faces on dollars and coins? 

  • Federal Student Aid: Provides resources and information about federal funds to help make college possible.

  For Older Adults and Members of the Military:

  1. Personal Finance Planning for Service members: Designed for active-duty service members, this site provides information for every phase of the service member’s financial life.

  2. Retirement Planning: Helps those that are planning for retirement understand their choices for receiving Social Security benefits.

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