Products May 4, 2016
EBSA Covers Client Basics in Video Series
A new video series from the Employee Benefits Security Administration covers topics including setting financial goals, budgeting, determining a retirement savings rate and managing debt.
Reported by Corie Hengst
The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has posted the “Savings Fitness Financial Planning Video Series,” featuring four short educational videos on the following topics:
• Setting Financial Goals, which helps workers establish their short- and long-term goals and think about how to accomplish them (available here);
• Budgeting, which helps workers organize financial documents, set up a budget and track their progress (available here);
• Determining a Target Retirement Saving Rate, which helps workers figure out what percentage of their current annual salary they should be saving for retirement (available here); and
• Debt Management (available here).
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