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UW-Madison Division of Extension’s Financial Education program helps families and individuals across the state achieve financial well being – keeping pace with day-to-day expenses, reaching financial goals, planning for life’s unexpected events and securing their financial future.

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How to Choose a Financial Advisor

Financial planning involves thinking about all areas of your finances and building a plan to reach your financial goals. Financial planning can help you live the life you want as you plan for the future. However, it is difficult to know everything about budgeting, saving, credit, managing debt, insurance, investing, and other financial topics. To […]

Recordkeeping Recommendations

Saving receipts, paystubs, tax forms, and other documents can be important. But it can be challenging to know which documents to save, how long to keep them, and which papers to throw away. This information sheet provides tips on documents you should save, how to save documents, and how to throw documents away. Documents to […]

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Reverse Mortgage Considerations

As you continue to pay your mortgage you will obtain more equity in your home or own it outright. Depending on your situation, over time your retirement accounts may decrease as your expenses increase. If this happens, you may consider selling your home to get income. While this can be a good option, you also […]

Feeling invisible?

Ever feel like you’re invisible? 11% of adult Americans actually are.. credit invisible that is! Credit invisible is a term used for people who have no credit history at any of the three national credit bureaus.  Isn’t it good to not have any credit card debt? Yes. It’s wonderful to not have any credit card […]

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