Blog

Financial counselling supports overall health and well-being

25 March 2019
Author: Wendy Abbott-Serroul

Alice came to the Thunder Bay Counselling (TBC) office distraught, overwhelmed and defeated. She had not been receiving any direct income for some time and was relying on friends and family to help her to pay rent, food and health expenses.

0 comments

Tags: benefits, Coaching, financial advice, financial counselling, financial empowerment, financial literacy, financial well-being, goal setting, seniors, tax, tax filing

FEPS provides high touch support to seniors

26 November 2018
Author: Julie McFayden

The Financial Empowerment and Problem Solving (FEPS) program provides free, confidential, one-on-one support to individuals living on low incomes to help them build their financial health.

0 comments

Tags: advisor, assets, consumer protection, credit, education, financial advice, financial counselling, financial empowerment, interest, low-income, retirement, seniors, tax filing

FEPS connects children to disability supports

28 September 2018
Author: Simi Khosa

The Financial Empowerment and Problem Solving (FEPS) program provides one-on-one financial problem-solving, tax filing assistance and financial education workshops to Ontarians with low and modest incomes and urgent financial problems.

0 comments

Tags: benefits, financial advice, financial well-being, low-income, RDSP, RESP, tax, tax filing

5 ways to stop spending money

17 August 2018
Author: John Cockburn

We are bombarded daily with advertisements to buy newer phones, faster computers, fancier cars, and trendier clothes. We're told that we have to have the newest of eveything in order to keep up with our peers or we risk not being accepted by them. It's not fair or smart, but it's the reality we live in.

0 comments

Tags: budget, budgeting, money management, planning, saving, shopping

2018 ABLE photo essay: Financial well-being for all

26 June 2018
Author: Trisha Islam

From May 7 to 9, the 2018 ABLE Financial Empowerment Conference was held in Richmond, British Columbia hosted by the ABLE Financial Empowerment Steering Committee with support from Family Services of Greater Vancouver and Prosper Canada.

0 comments

Tags: financial empowerment, financial well-being, Indigenous Peoples, interest, networking, poverty reduction, tax filing, youth

Displaying results 6-10 (of 50)

|< < 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 > >|