...allowable bill pay functionality: standard-meeting transaction accounts must either offer internal bill pay or instead provide consumers access to at least four free money orders or bank checks per month....
Financial Empowerment Centers offer free, professional, one-on-one financial counseling to enable residents to address their financial needs and plan for their futures. In this February 2014 press release, the CFE...
Piloted at select free tax preparation sites in four cities, SaveUSA is a simple tax time matched savings program — tax filers who deposited part of their refund into a...
Piloted at select free tax preparation sites in four cities, SaveUSA is a simple tax time matched savings program — tax filers who deposited part of their refund into a...
Piloted at select free tax preparation sites in four cities, SaveUSA is a simple tax time matched savings program — tax filers who deposited part of their refund into a...
...have been demonstrating that free, one-on-one financial counseling and coaching services can be delivered at scale, through trained professionals, with measurable client outcomes. There’s a building consensus that the key...
...Citing evidence from a range of CFE Fund work—including the success of our national Bank On initiative in assisting the Internal Revenue Service connect stimulus recipients to banking for direct...
...integrating banking access strategies into government service streams to address common access barriers like identification, language, and fees. In this letter, the CFE Fund urged Treasury to focus on large-scale...
...explored how Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) public counseling services could integrate and support existing emergency rental assistance and eviction prevention efforts. The pilot demonstrated that the period between notice of...
In this August 2020 press release, the CFE Fund announced that more than 50 city and county governments across the country will expand financial counseling and financial navigation services for...