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Eating healthy doesn’t have to be expensive. MyPlate tips and materials can help you make healthy choices while staying within your budget. Resources include recipes, tutorials, sample menus, and tips on creating a grocery game plan, shopping smart to fill your cart, and preparing healthy meals.

This brief was released by the Department of Labor Behavioral Interventions Project. The research shows ways to better encourage employees to focus on saving and investing for retirement.

The CFPB FinEx connects and supports financial education practitioners through an online and in-person information exchange. FinEx provides financial education practitioners with centralized access to the CFPB’s tools, research on consumer financial behavior and effective practices, and other financial education resources.

A tax refund may be the single biggest check some consumers receive all year. The CFPB’s Ready? Set. Save! offers resources to help service providers learn more about tax-time saving options to better help those they serve. This includes training webinar and workbook, promotional materials, and taxpayer tools.

A tax refund may be the single biggest check some consumers receive all year. The CFPB’s Ready? Set. Save! offers resources to help service providers learn more about tax-time saving options to better help those they serve. This includes training webinar and workbook, promotional materials, and taxpayer tools.

This guide describes the research behind the CFPB Financial Well-Being Scale – a tool to measure individual financial well-being – and provides detailed steps for using it, including how to score individuals’ responses and compare their scores.

The CFPB designed the Curriculum Review Tool to help educators compare and evaluate financial education curricula within four key areas: content, quality, utility, and efficacy. The goal of this tool is to allow educators to find and develop the most appropriate and effective financial education curricula for their classroom.

The SEC offers online publications that help seniors understand the vast array of investment products and how to avoid investment fraud. In-person presentations explain the red flags of investment fraud and how to check the background of investment professionals.

These CFPB toolkits help social service organizations, legal aid providers, and similar groups assist their clients in addressing financial challenges like budgeting, debt, and credit.

These CFPB online resources and tools show the steps child welfare caseworkers and their agencies can take to help ensure that youth in foster care start their adult lives with healthy credit. Tip sheets explain how to detect identity theft or fraud, and how to resolve inaccuracies in credit reports. The CFPB also provides sample letters for disputing credit report errors on behalf of youth in foster care.