My College Money Plan (MCMP)
Learn how to plan effectively for your current and future financial well-being, while enhancing your money management skills with the My College Money Plan online resources. The link below will get you to the My College Money Plan website so you can choose the financial literacy topic that is most relevant to your needs and interests. To receive participation points you must join the WSU-Student Support Services class by entering the Class Code provided by your SSS adviser.
***NOTE: If you created a My College Money Plan student account prior to student email conversion to Outlook, you might experience difficulty logging into your account. Please email our office for assistance at trio.sss@wichita.edu.
Online Resources for Financial Education
Build a customized list of financial resources for your library with these websites, videos, and courses from federal government agencies, national nonprofit organizations, and state and local resources.
This is the only source to get free credit reports authorized by federal law. This law requires each of the three largest consumer credit reporting agencies to give you a free copy of your credit report every 12 months.
Intuit Mint Life
A comprehensive financial tool that provides personalized insight and advice based
on income, credit score, and debt-to-income ratio. Has a variety of helpful resources
to help people reduce their debt, make important purchasing decisions and improve
their overall financial health.
CFTC SmartCheck
Run by the U.S. CFTC, SmartCheck connects investors to tools to check the registration,
license, and disciplinary history of certain financial professionals.
FINRA Professional Designations Database
Decode the letters that sometimes follow a financial professional’s name. You can
also see whether the issuing organization requires continuing education, takes complaints
or has a way for you to confirm who holds the credential.
FINRA Broker Check
Search for broker dealers to confirm they are properly registered and check their
disciplinary histories.
SaveAndInvest.org
Unbiased financial tools and information for investors, with special information for
military families and help for investors to avoid investment fraud.
Investor.gov
A site to help investors at all experience levels understand how to invest wisely
and avoid fraud.
MakingHomeAffordable.gov
The Making Home Affordable Program (MHA) ® is a critical part of the Obama Administration’s
broad strategy to help homeowners avoid foreclosure, stabilize the country’s housing
market, and improve the nation’s economy.
Find a Housing Counselor
This online tool uses information from the Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) to find HUD-certified housing counselors near you. HUD counselors can provide
advice on buying a home, renting, defaults, foreclosures, and credit issues.
360 Degrees of Financial Literacy
Target audience: Young adults
Financial Entertainment
Target audiences: High school and college students and younger adults
For Me, For You, For Later
Target audiences: Young children and parents
Money as You Grow
A resource for parents and caregivers that identifies key stages of childhood financial
development and provides essential and age-appropriate money lessons that kids need
to know.
NEFE High School Financial Planning Program
A turnkey financial literacy program offered in partnership with the U.S. Department
of Agriculture National Institute for Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) through participating
Land-Grant University Cooperative Extension Services (CES) and the Credit Union National
Association, Inc. (CUNA).
Elementary School Economics
Personal finance and economic lessons are paired with popular children’s books. Librarians
can read the book to the children and follow the reading with discussions about money
decisions, saving, spending, choices, needs and wants and much more. Includes lesson
plans and handouts.
Military OneSource
This site helps military members and their families get their finances in order and
plan for a healthy financial future.
360 Degrees of Financial Literacy
This site focuses on financial education as a lifelong endeavor—from children learning
about the value of money to adults reaching a secure retirement.
Ballpark E$timate, Choose to Save
The Ballpark E$timate is an easy-to-use worksheet that helps you approximate how much
you need to save to fund a comfortable retirement.
Social Security Retirement Estimator
The Retirement Estimator gives benefits estimates based on your actual Social Security
earnings record.
Paying for College
Tools and information can help you make better informed decisions.
Federal Student Aid
Get information about preparing for college, types of federal aid, how to apply for
aid using the free application for federal student aid (FAFSA); and your loan repayment
options.
Federal Student Aid – Financial Aid Toolkit
The Financial Aid Toolkit provides federal student aid information and outreach tools
for counselors, college access professionals, nonprofit mentors, and others.
USA.gov
The official web portal of the U.S. government. USA.gov contains timely and valuable
government information and resources on a variety of topics including consumer protection,
small business, benefits, health insurance, taxes and more.
MyCreditUnion.gov
The National Credit Union Administration’s consumer protection website MyCreditUnion.gov,
and its financial literacy microsite, Pocket Cents, offer a variety of educational
information, resources, and articles designed to help individuals make smarter financial
decisions.
Consumer.gov
Includes easy-to-read and understand resources for basic money management, credit,
scams, and ID theft.
Ask CFPB
Provides answers to common money questions.
Better Money Habits
Provides a variety of financial education topics, from basic money management to credit
and debt management, to long-term savings and more.
Income Tax Withholding Calculator
Are you withholding to much or too little from your paycheck? Did you get married,
divorced or have a child? Use this calculator to determine whether or not you need
to file a new W-4.
Money Smart for Older Americans
An instructor-led training developed jointly by FDIC and CFPB, this module provides
awareness among older adults and their caregivers about how to prevent elder financial
exploitation and to encourage advance planning and informed financial decision-making.