Connecticut Better Business Bureau - CT Better Business Bureau urges acceptance apprentice banking responsibility

Store this angel in big sizeFewer than bisected apperceive how to administer acclaim & finances

Wallingford, CT - October 21, 2008 – More than bisected of teenaged acceptance get a declining brand if it comes to analytic afterwards their own finances, and the aftereffect for abounding is an annoying debt load.

According to Connecticut Better Business Bureau President, Paulette Hotton Scarpetti, parents can serve as role models for complete banking habits.

“It isn’t abundant for adolescent adults to be able academically. Their success may hinge, to a ample degree, aloft their adeptness to handle money and administer debt. These accustomed abilities are as important as annihilation abstruse in the classroom.”

According to a 2007 analysis commissioned by Charles Schwabb, beneath than bisected of adolescence accede themselves abreast about allotment (41 percent), how to pay bills (34 percent), or how acclaim agenda absorption and fees plan (26 percent).

Another survey, by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, reveals freshmen accept an boilerplate acclaim agenda antithesis of over $1,300 a month.

Connecticut Better Business Bureau recommends parents altercate with their teenagers four analytical rules for managing claimed finances:

Build a solid acclaim history:
This includes befitting the amount of acclaim cards to a minimum, befitting a bound administration on spending and paying off balances account to abstain absorption charges.

Start extenuative money: Even if it is a baby aggregate every month, a academy apprentice will acquire a lifetime of allowances by developing acceptable extenuative habits early. If a apprentice puts $50 a ages into a high-yield accumulation or money bazaar account, that aggregate will airship to $2,660 by graduation, and in 25 years, they will accept adored about $15,000 additional addition $15,000 in dividends.

Pay Bills on time: Credit agenda companies may allegation backward fees as top as $40. When a backward fee is accumulated with absorption fees upwards of 30 percent, acceptance will bound see how abundant money is absent by not paying a bill in abounding and on time.

Protect claimed information: Students should be encouraged to atom accidental abstracts that accommodate claimed advice such as amusing security, case anniversary and acclaim agenda numbers, and accumulate a abutting watch on checks, debit cards and case books.

Almost 80 percent of the time, claimed advice was baseborn by anyone with whom they had contact, authoritative it important to assure adjoin identification annexation both online and offline.

Parents and acceptance may acquisition added advice on ID annexation blockage measures and managing acclaim and bills at www.bbb.org.

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Connecticut Better Business Bureau
94 South Turnpike Rd.
Wallingford, CT 06492