Money Management

• All About Money Fact Sheets
  
  
• Calculation of Your Net Worth
  A net worth statement is like that "X" marking your current financial position.
  
  
• Celebrate America Saves Week by Calculating Your Net Worth
  Use an online calculator to calculate your net worth.
  
  
• Consumer Course Mandated Under Bankruptcy Law
  U of I Extension to Teach Course Mandated Under New Bankruptcy Law
  
  
• Controlling Your Holiday Credit Use
  
  
• Credit Card Smarts
  
  
• Credit Information Series for Parents
  
  
• Earned Income Credit (EIC) and Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
  Learn more about the Earned Income Credit (EIC) you may have coming to you this year, and about the locally based free Income Tax Assistance offered through VITA.
  
  
• Fact Sheets on Obtaining and Using Credit Cards
  
  
• Financial Calculators
  
  
• Insurance Purchase Decisions
  Informative links to fact sheets, record keeping, home, family, and other insurance information.
  
  
• Investment Basics
  
  
• IRA Basics
  Would you like to review the differences between IRAs and Roth IRAs? IRA Basics presents these differences, and the tax benefits of each, in an easy-to-read table.
  
  
• Living on Less
  
  
• More for Your Money
  This LATEST U of I extension money management program involves budgeting, values, credit and even quizes to test your knowledge!
  
  
• Organizing Your Financial Papers
  
  
• Personal Finances -- "Charting a New Course" -- Bankruptcy Education
  University of Illinois Extension consumer and family economics educators have signed on to teach the debtor education course required by all persons filing for bankruptcy since the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act was passed in 2005.
  
  
• Personal Finances - Charting a New Course
  Workshops are available, at three central Illinois Locations, to meet state mandated debtor education under new bankruptcy law.
  
  
• Planning for "What If"....
  Through this series of fact sheets, you will learn about tools you can use to aid you and your family in the event of disability, incapactiy, and death, or marriage, remarriage, and divorce. Whether your assets total $60 or $60,000,000. you need to have a plan for whom will pay your bills and handle your finances, where the money will come from in case of emergencies and illness, and how your property will be distributed.
  
  
• Saving Money When You Don't Have a Dime to Spare
  
  
• Saving Tips
  
  
• Shopping for Consumer Credit
  
  
• Smart Shopping
  
  
• U of I Extension Consumer Publications
  
  
• VITA offers Free Tax Preparation....
  What to take with you to your VITA worker...
  
  
• When There's an Error on you Credit Card Bill
  
  
• Your Credit Report
  
  
• Your Net Worth Statement
  Read why you need this snapshot of your family's current financial situation, and how you make a net worth statement.
  
  
• Your Retirement Challenge: Protect Your Assets
  Life-changing disasters can strike at any time and any place playing havoc with the best-laid financial plans.
  
  

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