Basic Money Management
Includes budgeting, saving, taxes, debtor education for bankruptcy filers, and a variety of other programs to help consumers improve financial health, increase wealth, and make wise buying decisions.
Contact your local Family Financial Management State Specialist who can provide programs, publications, or other resources on a variety of topics.
Financial Fitness: Exercises to Shape Up Your Spending is a program designed to help you do a financial check-up and make a plan to improve financial health.
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If social distancing measures and the shelter-in-place order have left you with reduced income or without a paycheck, we have some tips to help you take control of your finances.
Increased social distancing measures and shelter-in-place orders are leaving millions of people with reduced income or without a paycheck.
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Movies depict many scenarios where a person has to leave home quickly, and those scenes show how important it is to grab the right items.
Susan Cosgrove, family resource management Extension associate with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, said cash and financial records should be high on the list of items to take in an emergency.