Loose Change: 1/15/09

houdini_CV_20090115092637.jpg Getty Images Personal Finance: -How to shop for legitimate, nonprofit credit counseling. SecretsForMoney ... -Members of the Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union will be trailblazers in the free credit-score front. It’s an expansion of the “Scores on Statements” program. WSJ -Along with college [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:30:54

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Military Retirement - Special Tools for Planning

by Michael Geoffrey People in the military usually have a much different retirement plan than ordinary civilians so they should use a special ... . Most people in the military are members of a credit union and that is always a great source of information. Getting help at your credit union is a good idea because they have years of experience [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:55:06

STCU: Crisis Averted

I enjoyed this note from Spokane Teachers Credit Union to their members: “In the interest of full disclosure, STCU would like to announce that, ... in the midst of the national mortgage crisis, your credit union has had one bad home loan… the crisis was all over in less than an hour.” Perhaps a little horn-tooty, but I think many credit [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 20:17:36

56,000 More Victims of Heartland Breach

About 56,000 members of Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union have been notified that their debit card accounts were exposed to fraud. It is the latest casualty of last year's breach of Heartland Payment Systems, one of the country's largest credit card processors, where information from more than 100 million credit and debit card transactions was exposed. Not until the end of May did Suncoast discover that some of its customers who use Visa Check Cards could be in danger. [more...]

Date: 2009-06-18 23:04:00

Ten Ways to Reduce Debt

by Michael Geoffrey Debt reduction requires good planning and great financial discipline. Here are ten steps that can reduce your debt: 1 ... a debt consolidation loan. If you are a member of a credit union you may find they offer better ... to encourage you to transfer your balances to their credit card. However, beware of missed or late payments [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 22:33:22

Refinancing? Try Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PFCU)

With rates plummeting these days, many people are choosing to refinance ... broker. The winner: Pentagon Federal Credit Union To get a mortgage, you must join the credit union.   You can do this for free if you or a family member served in the armed forces and has proof [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 07:10:32

Hundreds of Union Members to March in Inaugural Parade

Hundreds of Union Members to March in Inaugural Parade by James Parks, Jan 14, 2009 Photo credit: Proof Productions ... and Health Care for All. The overall theme of the labor float is “Honoring America’s Workers.” [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:10:05

Ron Paul Pressing for MBL Easing in Stimulus

http://www.nafcunet.org/T... Jan. 12, 2009 – Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is organizing a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in favor of including greater member business lending authority for credit unions in connection with this year’s stimulus bill. read more [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:31:47

Vantage CU’s Twitter 2.0 banking breakthrough

Every time you start to think the financial industry’s fixation with Twitter may be easing, something completely new comes along and shakes things up. Like this stunner: TweetMyMoney, a new fully-proprietary innovation from Vantage Credit Union that allows people to access account information and make transfers via Twitter. With the revolutionary new service, members can check their account balances, deposits, withdrawals, holds and cleared checks with simple commands. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 11:21:28

Let’s hear it for the Patz 1000 Alley Scraper 4-H Style Revue

Those folks at Purdue University are sheer genius. No offense to my friends at the fine land grant universities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, ... (the Brut Sun Bowl? San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia ... director of Purdue’s Center for the Environment. The first offering? The tiniest new family member of “ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 05:02:18

PIGS? omg! (FT/Aplphaville)

If it wasn’t so serious, this would be amusing. Except - it isn’t ... , a public service union leader has warned members that the International Monetary Fund could be brought ... . From FT/Alphaville What happens when a triple-A rated sovereign government’s credit rating [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 09:54:13

Five Ways To Make Any Financial Resolution A Success (Guest Post From J.D. Roth)

This guest post is from one of Wesabe’s new Advisory Board members, J.D. Roth, who writes about smart personal finance at Get Rich Slowly ... resolutions to improve our lives. Many of our goals are financial: get out of debt, open a retirement ... or credit union. Check out this huge list of rewards checking accounts by state for rates as high [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:07:44

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