Starting your child on the right financial path
By March 23, 2021 Financial education
Responsibility, goal-setting and independence. Youth accounts may just seem like a place to set aside money for your child, but they can teach valuable life skills, too! Children who build healthy ...
How Credit Scores Work
By October 26, 2020 Financial education
Your credit score is an important factor in mortgage qualification. It will determine if you are qualified and how much you will pay in interest to borrow money. Generally, a higher score will qualify ...
Traditional vs. Roth IRA
By September 29, 2020 Financial education
Authored by Gavin Chinn, CFS* advisor at Verity Credit Union It’s tax time again, and a great time to talk about IRA accounts. (as if there is a bad time to talk about IRA’s…) IRA’s (Individual Ret ...
Organizing Your Finances
By September 29, 2020 Financial education
Organizing your finances is a big undertaking. Here are three easy tips to get your finances in order to prepare for homeownership. 1) Plan and Direct Tell your money where to go with a zero-bas ...
Budgeting 101
By September 29, 2020 Financial education
Authored by Charnell Morud, Verity’s financial coach Budgeting – the dreaded task of committing to yourself to handling your finances better, or at least know where your money goes each month. But, ...