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Your Financial Checkup Resources
LIST OF TOPICS
1. General Personal Finance Resources
2. Developing Your Financial Goals
5. Investing and Retirment Planning
6. Protecting Your Financial Future
1. General Personal Finance Resources
2. Developing Your Financial Goals
- Links to online supports for sticking to your goals
- “Organize Your Important Household Papers”
- Federal Trade Commission information on ID Theft
- Click to download :Records- Rule of Thumb document
3. Managing Your Spending
- Personal Wealth Estimator
- Information on Online Personal Financial Management Tools
- SmartyPig: a free online resource that incentivizes users to save towards their financial goals
4. Understanding Your Credit
- Order your free credit report here
- Credit Reports and Credit Score Info from Federal Reserve Board
- Credit Reports and Scores by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Article by FTC on Free Credit Reports
- PowerPay
5. Investing and Retirement Planning
- SmartyPig: a free online resource that incentivizes users to save towards their financial goals
- My Retirement Paycheck is a resource from the National Endowment for Financial Education
- Investing for Your Future created by eXtension
- Investor.gov from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Ballpark Retirement Income Estimator
- Financial Planning for Retirement
- Invest Now: Money in Retirement Online Course from Univ of MN
6.Insurance Protects You
- eXtension Resources on Insurance
- Prepare Your Estate Plan
- Household Inventory Interactive Form
- "Smart Choices" Health Insurance Education
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