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A Mom's Guide to Family Finances
Author: Ellie Kay, Copyright @ 2006
Many parents dream of the day when their credit card bills are paid off, when they have a savings account and an IRA, or when they can take a once-in-a--lifetime family vacation. But many of them have no idea how to make those dreams come true. Writing with her entertaining signature style, Ellie Kay shows readers how to manage money to meet their goals. She offers practical strategies for saving money, making and sticking to a budget, and weathering financial setbacks. No matter what their family's financial background looks like, readers will find a useful tip or two in this easy-to-use book from America's Family Financial Expert™.
A Tip a Day with Ellie Kay
12 months' worth of money-saving ideas
Author: Ellie Kay, Copyright @ 2008
Save money every day! With a tip a day from America's Family Financial Expert readers reap practical money-saving tips that can be implemented right now! This purse-sized guide shows families how to save money on everything from groceries to vacations, life insurance to investments, and clothing to housing. Ellie understands the need to save - she is the mom of seven and has lived to tell about it! Easy-to-follow tips are divided into need areas. A coupon in the back of the book gets the reader jump-started.
Combat Finance
How military values and discipline will help you achieve financial freedom
Author: Kurt Neddenreip, Copyright @ 2014
In this book, Kurt Neddenriep, a Senior Vice President at a major investment firm who also served a tour in Afghanistan, develops a set of leadership and service values to help individuals and families to consistently achieve financial success. A comprehensive guide to personal finance, this book is informed by the author’s expertise in the financial industry and framed within the lessons, clear thinking and organization he learned over the course of a parallel 23-year career in the Army National Guard of Nevada. The book will tell the stories of those who serve our country and how their values, discipline, and morals can teach us financial lessons in our personal lives, taking military principles and tactics and using them to explain finances for the mainstream American.
The book covers:
- Mortgages
- Savings
- Insurance
- Portfolio diversity
Financial Readiness
Sound principles for successful money management
A Guideposts Outreach Publication, Copyright @2016
Being prepared—secure, confident, and ready—is critical to our Armed Forces calling. When our "financial house" is in chaos, most other areas of life soon follow. This booklet provides expert insights into breaking poor money management habits and overcoming the financial strains of deployments and unforeseen emergencies.
Guideposts and Wells Fargo have joined in partnership to create and distribute financial education material to the military. Financial Readiness is filled with useful tips and worksheets aimed at helping our veterans and returning troops increase their financial know-how.
Financial Readiness includes expert advice on these topics and more:
- Banking Basics
- Making Savings A Habit
- Smart Spending
- Budget Tips
- Using Credit Wisely
- Saving vs. Investing
- Planning For Retirement
- Financial Resource Page
- PLUS! an inspirational Guideposts story of one veteran’s successful transition from military service to business owner
Half-Price Living
Secrets to living well on one income
Author: Ellie Kay, Copyright @ 2007
Ellie Kay, America’s Family Financial Expert ®, will show you how to cut your stress in half – and that’s just a side benefit! With the wit and wisdom of someone who has lived the ½-price lifestyle, Ellie empowers you to cut the cord to a second income.
This easy-to-read guide gives practical steps, creative suggestions, and valuable resources to help you and your family:
- Cut your food bill in half!
- Cut your vacation expense in half!
- Cut your clothing costs in half!
- Cut your debt in half – and out!
- Cut your housing expenses in half!
- AND double your giving!
Heroes at Home
Help and hope for America's military families
Author: Ellie Kay, Copyright @ 2012
Inspiration for active-duty military and their hometown heroes
This encouraging book is more than just a helpful guide for families on active duty. Ellie offers today's generation of families the encouragement they need as they encounter the challenges military families face, whether they're Reserves, National Guard, or full-time active duty. As the wife of an Air Force pilot and the mom of five kids, Ellie has an inside perspective on how to cope with frequent moves, be ready for imminent deployment, and stay in touch over long distances. Her sage advice and witty humor give families some sense of comfort when military life seems chaotic. Ellie is bent on ensuring our military members and families are thanked, loved, and know they are serving with support. (Command Chief Master Sergeant Vance M. Clarke, Usaf).
Living Rich for Less
Create the lifestyle you want by giving, saving, and spending smart
Author: Ellie Kay, Copyright @ 2008
So you want to own the home you love, make memories on wonderful vacations with family or friends, finance college educations, and help others too? You can--starting here and now.
With lively humor, proven know-how, and practical principles for financial health, Living Rich for Less helps you stretch your dollars to realize the lifestyle of your dreams. Ellie Kay’s entertaining and enlightening examples show you simple steps to save, spend, and give smart, and her three main principles are undergirded by dozens of effective rules and hundreds of Cha-Ching Factor™ tips that keep or put money in your pocket.
Military House Hacking
How to live for free, earn passive income and create generational wealth
Authors: Markian Sich, Michael Foster, Eric UpChurch, Adam La Barr, Timothy Kelly, Mitch Durfree, Rod Khleif, Copyright @ 2018
The Active Duty Passive Income Team brings you an in-depth look at multiple strategies that will allow you, the veteran, active duty service member or military spouse, to successfully pursue your dreams in earning enough monthly passive income through real estate investing to live completely financially free.This book was created with you in mind - to start a spark, to create an epiphany moment that if we can do it while on active duty, so can you! House hacking as you move from duty station to duty station is the perfect way to get your foot in the door with real estate investing. This book does not prescribe a get rich quick method; it is a condensed guide of a path well-followed by many military members.Please enjoy reading Military House Hacking, take time to reflect on how you can employ some of these military-specific real estate strategies, then connect with the ADPI team. Our Academy and community of active duty and veteran members can set you on a path to success.
Military in Transition's Guide to The Survivor Benefit Plan
Navigating the SBP
Author: Forrest Baumhover, Copyright @ 2016
Finally, together in one place, a comprehensive resource to help military members and their families learn about the Survivor Benefit Plan. Choosing whether or not to select the Survivor Benefit Plan is a very personal decision, and you deserve to have the most information and insight possible so that you make the right decision for your situation. This book is a starting point for what you need to know so that you can formulate your own decision when it comes to selecting the Survivor Benefit Plan upon your retirement. This book points you to all the available DoD resources, and gives you information to promote your critical thinking. Follow practical case studies based upon families like yours, and the ones you see throughout your career. Perhaps you’ll see yourself in one of their stories and know the steps to take to start your journey about whether or not to choose to participate in the Survivor Benefit Plan. Over the next few decades, hundreds of thousands of military families will be making their transition into military retirement. Learn how you can address the financial risks that you and your family face, and make the right financial decision as you choose whether or not the Survivor Benefit Plan is right for you. This book is a quick read, and designed to be both a personal and informational resource for you to make one of the most important decisions of your military transition.
Military Millionaire
How you can retire a millionaire and live a life of wealth (no matter what your pay grade) using special military investment benefits and a proven plan for success
Author: Chris N. Lehto, Copyright @ 2016
How’s Your Financial Future Looking? Are You Building Your Wealth? Most military personnel will retire with little to no savings.
They won’t have saved for their kids' college tuition.
Many will still be living paycheck to paycheck.
And far too many will be in debt.
How about you?
Yet the truth is, every man and woman in the U.S. military can retire a millionaire if they follow the proven plan Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Chris Lehto lays out in this timely book.
And yes, that includes you.
The U.S. Military Offers Unique Investment Benefits You Can Use to Massively Grow Your Wealth - Regardless of Your Pay Grade Stop making excuses.
In Military Millionaire Lehto shows you how to retire a millionaire...no matter what your pay grade.
The secret to success is two-fold:
- Use the unique investment benefits afforded to U.S. military personnel
- Stick to a proven plan. It works only when you actually do it.
When you do these two things, you can’t help but succeed. It really is that simple.
Are You Still Waiting? Start Doing Now! Every day you put it off is money you’re losing instead of making.
In Military Millionaire Lehto breaks it down into simple steps you can do starting today.
He’ll show you:
- How you can grow your net worth with rental property investments available only to military personnel
- Effortless and proven money management strategies that can grow even modest pay into enormous retirement savings
- Brain-dead-simple financial planning and personal finance skills that anyone can do to grow their wealth
- And much more
Take a step toward financial freedom today. Get your copy of Military Millionaire. Click the buy button on this page to get started now.
Military Stewardship Devotional
Author: American Bible Society
This 40-day devotion was designed to help service members, veterans, and their families better understand what the Bible teaches about handling personal finances. The devotions gradually build from a basic to a deeper Biblical understanding of Christian stewardship. Each devotion takes only a few minutes using the proven quiet time approach of Pray-Read-Reflect-Respond. Also included are an expanded topical index, a listing of additional resources, and a guide for using this devotion in an 8-week small group Bible study.
On the Frontline
A personal guidebook for the physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges of military life
Author: Tom Neven, Copyright @ 2006
The struggles and temptations our service men and women encounter are unique and beyond what civilians might ever face. Written from someone who's been there, this book addresses head-on the issues prevalent in military life: loneliness, fidelity, debt, fear and much more. It's a must-read handbook with uncompromising biblical guidance that will encourage and inspire both men and women in military service.
Operation Enduring Finance
A servicemember's guide to credit repair
Author: Roger Lang, Copyright @ 2010
This book was designed with military members in mind--to protect the credit and finances of those who, in turn, so valiantly protect the world from terrorism.
As a battalion chaplain, former debt litigator Roger Lang saw too many fellow service members struggling beneath sizable financial burdens due to credit blemishes. These credit dings, which result in raised interest rates, often make mortgages, car loans, and other bills more difficult to manage. People in uniform, who serve our country with the most dedication, are the hardest hit.
Operation Money
A financial guide for military service members and families
Author: Jean Chatzky, Copyright @ 2014
"From investing in education and affording a home to choosing the right credit products and adequately saving for retirement, Operation Money offers military-specific advice to achieving financial stability." --Michael E. O'Neill, Chairman, Citigroup Inc., First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps, 1969-1971
When it comes to money, military service members and their families face financial challenges that civilians simply don’t.
While serving on active duty, members of the military are typically asked to move every few years and must learn how to manage money during multiple deployments. And managing the finances means figuring out a way to maintain a balanced budget while communication is limited. Meanwhile, the spouse at home is essentially functioning as a single parent without the necessary skills and tools to make serving as the family’s Chief Financial Officer as easy as possible. That is, until now.
Jean Chatzky, financial editor for NBC's Today show, is here to help with Operation Money, a mission-based guide that provides detailed resources to prevent money problems before they happen; gives you the tools to manage through a tough situation if you’re already facing one; and empowers you to figure out how best to plan for your future—either in or out of the military—and then assists you in doing so.
The chapters throughout focus on saving, debt, credit, buying and financing a home, buying and financing a car, paying for college, protecting the ones you love with insurance and an estate plan, dealing with a relocation, managing money through a deployment, handling a furlough, retirement, divorce, and the financial aspects of caregiving.
With contributions from Blue Star Families, MSCNN, and other military related organizations,Operation Money is a must-read for those who serve that are looking to take charge of their financial present and future.
The enhanced edition includes video tips and advice from Jean Chatzky, as well as a bonus section featuring interviews with military spouses and veterans who share their personal financial stories with Jean.
Operation Money is published and available free-of-charge thanks to the generous support of Citi. For more information on Citi’s support for military veterans and their families, visit www.citisalutes.com.
Soldier of Finance
Take charge of your money and invest in your future
Author: Jeff Rose, Copyright @ 2013
Too much debt? Not enough savings? Stop your whining and get to work. It's time to become a battle-ready financial warrior, prepared to tackle any money challenge. Modeled on the Soldier's Handbook, which is issued to all new U.S. Army recruits, Soldier of Finance is a no-nonsense, military-style training manual to overcoming financial obstacles and building lasting wealth.
Written by Jeff Rose, a Certified Financial Planner(t) and army veteran with extensive combat experience, the book is divided into 14 modules, each section covering an essential element of financial success. You will learn how to:
- Evaluate your position and commit to change
- Target and methodically eliminate debt
- Clean up your credit report
- Create tactical budgets
- Build emergency savings
- Invest for the short and long term
- Determine an affordable mortgage size, insurance needs, and more.
Complete with tales from the trenches and useful tools including quizzes, debriefings, and more-Soldier of Finance is the survival guide you need to face down your finances and bring order and prosperity to your life.
JEFF ROSE, CFP, (Carbondale, IL) is a Certified Financial Planner(t) and an Iraq combat veteran. A regular contributor to U.S. News & World Report, MarketWatch, and Equifax.com, he is the author of two popular personal finance blogs, SoldierofFinance.com and the nation ally recognized GoodFinancialCents.com, which has been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, Kiplinger, and The Wall Street Journal.
The Intelligent Military Investor
An officer's guide to personal finance and investing
Author: Spencer Reese, Copyright @ 2017
Written by an active duty US Air Force officer and writer of the Military Money Manual blog, The Intelligent Military Investor is a high-impact, to-the-point manual that targets the financial issues facing cadets, midshipmen, and young commissioned officers, and all branches of the military.
Military servicemembers receive extensive training at making difficult split-second decisions and performing highly technical procedures. Today's United States Armed Forces are better educated than any other military in history. However, they receive little to no training in personal finance, investing, insurance, taxes, budgeting, and achieving financial independence.
This book teaches you exactly what you need to do with your money. It will teach you to use your military pay to pay off your your debts, provide for your family, build wealth through saving and investing, and stop getting ripped off by financial "professionals" who prey on military servicemembers.
The book makes an excellent graduation gift for anyone graduating from the Naval, Military, or Air Force Academy. ROTC and OTS/OCS graduates will also find the book relevant and useful. Any grade, from private to general, will benefit from the lessons within.
Easily digested by a novice to the subject matter yet the book also contains advanced concepts specific to military personnel you won’t find in other financial books.
This book will teach you:
*If you should take out a Career Starter Loan or similar “cadet loans”
*What to look in for your first car (the “lieutenant-mobile”)
*Whether you should buy, rent, or live on base
*Why the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) is the best investment vehicle for financial independence
*How to automatically invest in simple, low-cost, and diversified investments that will grow your net worth rapidly
*Whether you should invest in Roth or Traditional TSP and IRA
*What kind of life, auto, and home insurance you should purchase
*How to calculate exactly how much you need for financial independence or early retirement
Since 2008 Spencer studied personal finance and investing by reading hundreds of blogs, books, and articles. He invested over 4000 hours studying and writing about his research on his blog. By using the principles and ideas that he learned over 8 years of studying personal finance and serving for 6 years in the Air Force, he achieved the following:
*Paid off all of his student and auto loans totaling over $100,000
*Bought and sold a home at a 15% profit in 3 years
*Increased his net worth from the negative six figures to the positive six figures in 4 years
*Earned thousands of dollars worth of free travel and hotel stays through credit card reward programs
Save yourself the time and effort. Buy The Intelligent Military Investor and get the most important information you need to set yourself up for financial freedom in less than 2 hours.
A total plan to go from a cadet to a financially independent wealthy investor, The Intelligent Military Investor will give you the knowledge to achieve financial independence while you serve.
The Little Book of Big Savings
351 practical ways to save money now
Author: Ellie Kay, Copyright @ 2009
Every month you spend money in twelve major categories. And at the end of each month, you scratch your head and wonder, Where did it all go?
In The Little Book of Big Savings, America’s Financial Expert,® Ellie Kay, will help you uncover the extra cash just waiting to be found in every area of your life. Not only will you never again wonder where your cash went, you will have extra to save–and even to share.
Don’t mindlessly let hundreds of dollars slip out of your ATM every month. Ellie’s practical advice will show you:
- How one phone call could save you $500 a year or more
- How your kids can get a great education without breaking the bank
- Three ways your water heater can save you money
- Why giving away money is one of the best ways to save it
- How to save up to 50% on your online purchases
Plus hundreds of other tips that will loosen your budget without sacrificing your lifestyle. Soon you’ll find what you want the most when it comes to your finances: peace of mind.
The Military Guide to Financial Independence and Retirement
Author: Doug Nordman, Copyright @ 2011
This book provides service members, veterans, and their families with a critical roadmap for becoming financially independent prior to committing themselves to full-time retirement. It outlines how retiring military personnel in their early 40s can become happily semi-retired. Emphasizing the importance of family, lifestyle, and bridge careers, the book shows how to build a sound financial house based upon military benefits, savings, frugal living, and investing in oneself. Includes examples, checklists, websites, and appendices.
The Thinking Spouse's Guide to Military Life
Author: Janine Boldrin, Copyright @ 2012
Moves, deployments, and budget cuts all threaten the financial security of today's military families. To meet these challenges, all military spouses should have a solid understanding of how their military life impacts their big purchases.
The Thinking Spouse’s Guide to Military Life, a 50 page mini-guide, will help military spouses when making buying decisions for their family.
This ebook will show you how to account for your military lifestyle when buying a home, car, home furnishings, and pets so you can avoid the common mistakes others make. You will also discover discounts, programs, and resources for your family.
Learn today what many military families only find out about after financial heartache. The Thinking Spouse's Guide to Military Life will help you make buying decisions that stand up to the changes military life can bring.
Your VA Loan
And how it can make you a millionaire
Author: Phil Capron, Copyright @ 2018
Are you a veteran or active duty military? This book is for you! Phil will show you how to follow a step by step process to acquire your first property with no money down by using your VA Loan! Many veterans and active duty military members do not realize that the VA Loan exists, and even fewer realize the dramatic impact its proper use can have on their financial outlook. This book will show you how to create real wealth by using your VA Loan by creating both equity and cash flow through real estate. As a former US Navy Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewman (SWCC) turned real estate agent, flipper, and investor, Phil has seen the business from all sides. He helps the reader go beyond academic concepts by incorporating real world examples illustrating how real estate can secure your financial future after the military, and can even make you a millionaire!
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Armed Forces Financial Guide: Mapping the Military Lifecycle (pdf)
We are pleased to present the Armed Forces Financial Guide: Mapping the Military Lifecycle to assist servicemembers and their families with money management and financial planning through each stage of the military lifecycle, from enlistment and promotion to separation or retirement.
Under one cover, it provides essential information on qualifying for and accessing military benefits, working as a family to make sound financial choices, transitioning from active duty to civilian life, and enrolling in essential veterans' programs.
Bankrate.com
Bankrate, Inc. is the Web's leading aggregator of financial rate information, offering an unparalleled depth and breadth of rate data and financial content. Bankrate continually surveys approximately 4,800 financial institutions in all 50 states in order to provide clear, objective, and unbiased rates to consumers. Our flagship website, Bankrate.com, provides free rate information to consumers on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.
In addition to rate data, we publish original and objective personal finance stories to help consumers make informed financial decisions. Our staff of award-winning reporters and editors provides expert advice on just about every major financial decision facing our readers: from purchasing their first home, to selecting a new car, to saving for retirement.
Crown Financial Ministries
Our mission: equipping people worldwide to learn, apply, and teach God’s financial principles so they may know Christ more intimately, be free to serve Him, and help fund the Great Commission.
Crown Financial Ministries®, founded in 1976, is an interdenominational ministry dedicated to equipping people around the world to learn, apply, and teach biblical financial principles. Crown has taught or equipped more than 50 million people in over 80 nations with the life-transforming message of faithfully living by God's financial principles in every area of their lives. Our vision is to see the followers of Christ in every nation faithfully living by God’s financial principles in every area of their lives.
Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace - Military Edition
Financial Peace University (FPU) is an intensive personal finance course that helps servicemembers strategically and effectively remove debt and build wealth. In a small-group format, this 13-lesson DVD course — taught by personal finance expert Dave Ramsey — covers everything from budgeting and paying off debt to retirement and charitable giving.
FPU equips military personnel with the security and protection of a sound financial plan during times of activation, deployment, TDY or PCS. When servicemembers aren't preoccupied with mounting financial stress back home, they are free to focus on their duty and their unit's mission with peace-of-mind.
The average family unit (single military member or married couple) pays off $5,300 in consumer debt and puts $2,700 into savings during the 91-day training!
FPU classes have been held on many installations in the US and around the world since 2001.
Defense Finance and Accounting Service
Military pay, civilian pay, retired pay, travel pay, etc.
Ellie Kay
Author of a fifteen books, popular speaker, corporate educator and spokesperson, and mother of seven children—five by birth, two by marriage, and all by love. Ellie Kay has walked her own financial talk and knows what it's like to be strapped for cash and struggling.
Heroes at Home
The Heroes at Home Financial Event is a fully sponsored program for USAF families that provides audiences with an event that is entertaining, engaging and educational. Ellie Kay is known as “America’s Family Financial Expert” and she provides financial education that can help families pay off debt, build up savings and learn ways to get more for less.
The show features four expert speakers, a high energy millennial emcee, and over 100 door prizes. It lasts 2 hours, which includes a 30-minute meet and greet and autograph session with the speakers after the event.
MilSpouse Money Mission
Our mission is to educate and empower military spouses to elevate their families by making smart money moves. Check out our Money Ready guide or the MiLife Milestones section to get started!
Paycheck Chronicles - Military.com
Welcome to Military.com's finance channel blog, hosted by military spouse and finance writer Kate Kashman. The military money experience is unique and challenging. The Paycheck Chronicles is here to help with daily tips on the special financial situations of military servicemembers and their families
Got a question or advice based on a real-world money experience? Click on the "Tell Kate" link to the right and let us know about it.
Military Money Matters
Military-Money-Matters.com is a strong advocate for America's military families. We believe helping them achieve financial freedom is one way we can express our gratitude for their service.
Our mission is to provide America's military families with reliable, accurate information to help them achieve financial freedom and quality of life on their military paychecks. We can't pay them enough for their service to our nation.
Military-Money-Matters.com is your guide to money management and financial freedom for America's military families. Written by a former Navy JAG and Navy spouse who understands the challenges faced by military families.
Military Saves
Military Saves is a social marketing campaign to persuade, motivate, and encourage military families to save money every month, and to convince leaders and organizations to be aggressive in promoting automatic savings. The campaign is a growing network of organizations and individuals committed to helping and supporting military members and their loved ones build personal savings arsenals to provide for their immediate and long-term financial needs.
Military Saves was developed and tested by its non-profit sponsor, Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and the military services from 2003 to 2006 and launched throughout the Department of Defense (DoD) on February 25, 2007. It is part of two larger campaigns -- the DoD Financial Readiness Campaign, and the national America Saves campaign.
While it is an ongoing campaign, the entire military community comes together to focus on financial readiness during Military Saves Week, the last Sunday in February to the first Sunday in March.
MilSpouse Money Mission
The mission of MilSpouse Money Mission is to educate and empower military spouses to elevate their families by making smart money moves. Check out our Money Ready guide to get started!
The Military Wallet
The Military Wallet is a personal finance website for military members, veterans and their families. Our goal is to help the military community better how to better manage money and understand the variety of programs and benefits available to them.
Thrift Savings Plan
The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) is a retirement savings and investment plan for Federal employees and members of the uniformed services, including the Ready Reserve. It was established by Congress in the Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986 and offers the same types of savings and tax benefits that many private corporations offer their employees under 401(k) plans.
The TSP is a defined contribution plan, meaning that the retirement income you receive from your TSP account will depend on how much you (and your agency, if you are eligible to receive agency contributions) put into your account during your working years and the earnings accumulated over that time.
VeteransPlus
Our mission is to teach service members, veterans and their families the skills necessary to better manage their finances, get control of their debt and learn how to save and invest for their futures and for their children's futures. Whether you are presently deployed overseas or completed your service many years ago, VeteransPlus is available to help you manage your financial life. Most of our team members are veterans themselves and all of them are trained to be sensitive to the issues that affect veterans, deployed military personnel and their families.
Annual Credit Report
This central site allows you to request a free credit file disclosure, commonly called a credit report, once every 12 months from each of the nationwide consumer credit reporting companies: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
AnnualCreditReport.com is the official site to help consumers to obtain their free credit report.
Better Business Bureau Military Line
Since 2004, BBB Military Line has provided free resources to our military communities in the areas of financial literacy and consumer protection through the efforts of 116 BBBs across the U.S.
The five main components of the program are:
- Education - Many Local BBBs on and around military installations teach financial readiness classes to service members.
- Outreach - We attend and support community fairs, conferences and other events, speaking with service members and distributing information.
- Information - Our website provides a one stop shop for articles, links and consumer alerts for each branch of service. Check out our resources page for free consumer guides written just for military members and find us on Facebook and Twitter.
- Data Collection - We analyze BBB data to help identify the threats and needs of our military community in the marketplace.
- Complaint and Dispute Resolution - Filing a complaint with BBB helps military consumers resolve disputes and alert us to issues affecting the military community at large.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Servicemembers should be able to accomplish their mission without worrying about illegal or harmful financial practices. The Office of Servicemember Affairs is here to ensure that military personnel and their families have a voice at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Military life can have some extra challenges that can sometimes have powerful financial repercussions.
Books offering financial guidance for military families
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