Financial Tips by Age Group

  • May 4, 2016
  • By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
  • GreenPath Financial Wellness is a trusted national nonprofit with more than 60-years of helping people build financial health and resiliency. Our NFCC-certified counselors give you options to manage credit card debt, student loans and homeownership.
  • Category: Financial Health Tips

There are two “golden rules” in personal finance that apply, regardless of how old you are: 1) live within your means, and 2) look forward to the future and save for it. These are two very simple concepts, but very powerful.  If actually applied to your everyday life, they can mean the difference between being constantly...

How to Find a Qualified Credit Counselor – NerdWallet

  • May 2, 2016
  • By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
  • GreenPath Financial Wellness is a trusted national nonprofit with more than 60-years of helping people build financial health and resiliency. Our NFCC-certified counselors give you options to manage credit card debt, student loans and homeownership.
  • Category: Blog, Credit

Whether you need debt management or are just looking to create a budget, choosing a qualified credit counselor should be your first step. A qualified credit counselor can provide you with all the resources and tools you need to take control of your finances. Thousands of credit counselors across the country work to...

Beware of Payday Loans

  • April 8, 2016
  • By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
  • GreenPath Financial Wellness is a trusted national nonprofit with more than 60-years of helping people build financial health and resiliency. Our NFCC-certified counselors give you options to manage credit card debt, student loans and homeownership.
  • Category: Blog, Debt

Payday loans are short-term, high interest loans that are very easy to get. Beware of Payday Loans though. It may be convenient to stop at a local cash advance store on the corner and tempting if your budget is tight. But, you should avoid these high-interest loans, at all costs! Consider the facts: To get a payday loan,...

Spring Clean Your Way to Savings

  • March 23, 2016
  • By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
  • GreenPath Financial Wellness is a trusted national nonprofit with more than 60-years of helping people build financial health and resiliency. Our NFCC-certified counselors give you options to manage credit card debt, student loans and homeownership.
  • Category: Financial Health Tips

Springtime means opening the windows, sweeping out the dust from over the winter and starting anew. It is also the opportune time to clean out your wallet or purse, that junk drawer full of receipts and those overflowing file cabinets. You can also spring clean your way to savings. But where to begin? Sweep it Go...

Fair Debt Collection Act

  • February 10, 2016
  • By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
  • GreenPath Financial Wellness is a trusted national nonprofit with more than 60-years of helping people build financial health and resiliency. Our NFCC-certified counselors give you options to manage credit card debt, student loans and homeownership.
  • Category: Blog, Debt

The Fair Debt Collection Act controls the way debt collectors can behave in trying to get payments. Debt collectors may not harass you.

Savings Accounts

  • January 31, 2016
  • By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
  • GreenPath Financial Wellness is a trusted national nonprofit with more than 60-years of helping people build financial health and resiliency. Our NFCC-certified counselors give you options to manage credit card debt, student loans and homeownership.
  • Category: Blog, Savings

A savings account is used to save money and earn interest on the cash in the account. You can open a savings account at a bank or credit union. 

Fair Housing Act

  • January 30, 2016
  • By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
  • GreenPath Financial Wellness is a trusted national nonprofit with more than 60-years of helping people build financial health and resiliency. Our NFCC-certified counselors give you options to manage credit card debt, student loans and homeownership.
  • Category: Blog, Housing

The Fair Housing Act bans discrimination for housing. According to the Fair Housing Act, no one may take any actions based on prejudice.

Debit Cards

  • January 30, 2016
  • By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
  • GreenPath Financial Wellness is a trusted national nonprofit with more than 60-years of helping people build financial health and resiliency. Our NFCC-certified counselors give you options to manage credit card debt, student loans and homeownership.
  • Category: Blog, Credit

Debit cards are a tool that can make banking and spending money easy. Still, you need to know the basics of how debit cards work.

ATM Fees Can Break the Bank

  • January 25, 2016
  • By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
  • GreenPath Financial Wellness is a trusted national nonprofit with more than 60-years of helping people build financial health and resiliency. Our NFCC-certified counselors give you options to manage credit card debt, student loans and homeownership.
  • Category: Blog, Savings

At GreenPath, we remind our clients of some of the obvious ways to save money: Pack your lunch a few days a week, cut back on the gourmet coffee and stick to your budget. Also, we remind them to consider how they use automated teller machines because ATM fees can break the bank. Recently, there was a story about ATM...

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