Are you doing these 6 steps to successfully pay off your debt? – WXYZ Detroit
- March 4, 2020
- By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
- Category: News
Excerpt and video from WXYZ Detroit's story, Are you doing these 6 steps to successfully pay off your debt? Featuring Kristen Holt, president and CEO March is Credit Education Month. Did you know 78 percent of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck? When you’re talking about debt, millions of people...
Welcome to No Spend November
- November 1, 2019
- By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
- Category: No Spend November
Financial tips to help you be more mindful of your spending November brings longer nights, shorter days and a time to reflect on all that we are grateful for. It’s also the perfect time to shift our mindset about money and re-evaluate our financial situation. That’s why GreenPath Financial Wellness is bringing back...
Creating a New Model for Financial Education
- October 29, 2019
- By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
- Category: People Behind GreenPath
This story is part of a series that spotlights our employees here at GreenPath. We hope these stories will give you a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their daily lives, and how they strive to make an impact by helping people improve their financial wellness. Today's story is about Chris Dlugozima, Learning Experience Designer. In...
College grads average $32,158 in debt in Michigan. Here’s what some didn’t know
Excerpt from Detroit Free Press About that thing called 'interest' College grads receive a six-month grace period before they have to start paying down student loans. Getting a diploma in May means many will begin to repay those loans in November. But if you have unsubsidized federal student loans, the interest keeps...
How UAW-GM Employees Can Manage Financial Effects of the Shutdown
- October 15, 2019
- By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
- Category: Budgeting, Financial Health Tips
Featuring Kristen Holt, President & CEO It’s day 29 since roughly 46,000 autoworkers across 55 facilities nationwide went on strike. While UAW leaders made advance bill payments to afford the $250 weekly salary for autoworkers on strike, strike pay was not made available until the 15th day of the strike. Union...
3 Tips for Sticking to Your Budget During Financial Planning Month
- October 10, 2019
- By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
- Category: Budgeting, Financial Health Tips
October is Financial Planning Month, and with the new year right around the corner, now is a great time to make sure you are on track to meet your short-term and long-term financial goals. Here are three tips to keep your spending in check and finish the year out strong: Don’t transfer money from your savings account...
Is Playing the Lottery Worth the Gamble?
Partner with GreenPath to create a spending plan that puts you on the path to financial wellness We all have high hopes that one day our luck will change and we will win the lottery. While this dream is exciting to fantasize about, what are the odds that millionaire status is in your future? Odds of winning the lottery According...
How the Bankruptcy Process Works
- August 17, 2019
- By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
- Category: Bankruptcy, Blog, Debt
Learn how bankruptcy works and the steps to file bankruptcy to help you understand what you will need to do to file bankruptcy.
How to Manage Your Credit Card Bills, Which Experts Say Are Late More Often – New York Times
- July 9, 2019
- By: Greenpath Financial Wellness
- Category: News
The New York Times recently interviewed GreenPath President & CEO Kristen Holt and GreenPath client Becky Willard for an article on how a growing number of people are having trouble paying their credit card bills. Read how a GreenPath Debt Management Plan helped Becky pay off $40,000 in about five years, saving her about $30,000 along the way.
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