Place your bets on the smart money. Educate yourself.

 

Meritrust offers periodic seminars in financial education that will help you improve your credit, manage college funds or retirement, or teach you the basics of buying your first home.

 

Here are some of the seminars we are currently working on:

• First Time Home Buyers
  Learn the basics of buying a home: everything from amortization to zero margin.
• Financial Survival Camp
  It’s a fun, financial boot camp for kids (4th thru 8th grades), teaching them all they need to know about saving, balancing a checkbook and making good choices early on.
• Identity Theft
  Helpful tips for keeping your identity safe and what to do when something goes wrong.
• Debt Management
  Getting and staying out of debt—everything you need to know.
• Credit Report
  How to build good credit, and the truth about what’s really bad for your credit.
• IRA
  Understand all the options you’ve got to start saving for your dream retirement right now.
• College Savings
  With 529 plans, we’ll point you to the one that is right for you.

As a member of Meritrust Credit Union, you should always feel free to contact our Community Education Coordinator for more information about the classes we offer, or even those that we do not.