This edition of FDIC Consumer News focuses on tips for newlyweds. For these couples, the first big financial decisions go beyond how to pay for the honeymoon and how to invest all those checks. They also involve starting a new household on solid ground financially.
This edition of FDIC Consumer News focuses on teaching kids the financial facts of life, the importance of saving, spending wisely and sharing with others. The article offers some suggestions that can help parents, guardians and even grandparents raise responsible money-managers.
This website presents the computer-based Money Smart curriculum -- a comprehensive financial education curriculum designed to help individuals outside the financial mainstream develop financial skills and positive banking relationships. The Money Smart Computer-Based Instruction (CBI) is a friendly and easy to use learning tool that teaches the 10 modules of the Money Smart curriculum through a computer.
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.
This website provides information on US Savings bonds. It features an on-line calculator for determining the value of various types of savings bonds including Series EE, E and I bonds and Savings Notes.