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San Diego, CA.
The award winning, San Diego based Institute of Consumer
Financial Education
(ICFE) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
with the Office of the Deputy Under
Secretary of Defense/Military Community and Family Policy
to help improve the financial readiness
of military service members and their families. The MOU
allows personnel at military installations
throughout the Department of Defense (DoD) to utilize the
many financial education programs and
web-based services provided by the ICFE including personal
finance curriculums, PowerPoint shows,
financial counseling, spending education, credit education
and credit report reviews among numerous
other resources and services.
The ICFE is an independent, national nonprofit
organization founded in 1982 by the late Loren
Dunton, who is credited with founding the financial
planning industry and who created the very
prestigious ‘Certified Financial Planner (CFP)
designation. The ICFE dedicated to helping consumers
of all ages do a better job of spending, increasing
savings accumulation and use credit more wisely.
The MOU between the two organizations is part of a DoD
financial education initiative aiming to assist service
members and their families in their efforts to build
personal wealth through improved spending techniques and
practices, reducing debt and establishing savings goals.
By increasing personal wealth, service members are better
able to achieve financial goals such as maintaining an
emergency cash reserve, sending their children to college,
purchasing a house after leaving the service and investing
for retirement.
"The ICFE has been helping the military financial
counselors for many years now with training
programs and educational courses, brochures, an eNEWS and
other helpful materials. Now, this
agreement between ICFE and the Department of Defense makes
it official and places the ICFE’s
programs and materials before all the of the military's
personal finance management specialists
(PFMS), worldwide," said Paul Richard, a Registered
Financial Consultant (RFC) and the ICFE’s
executive director.
As part of the MOU, the ICFE is making its web-based
personal finance curriculum, credit report
reviews, credit file correction and other ICFE materials
available to all PFMS, many of whom have
already completed their training and have been certified
as Credit Report Reviewers by the ICFE. The
ICFE also has speakers and other presenters available who
visit installations and speak to service
members about their personal finances.
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For more information about the Department of
Defense/Financial Readiness Campaign (DOD/FRC)
contact Colonel (Ret) Marcus Beauregard 703-696-9468 x 166
For more information about the ICFE and the MOU with the
DOD/FRC
contact Paul Richard, RFC - 619-239-1401
To learn more about free credit reports, credit file
mistakes and credit report reviews or how to become
Certified as a Credit Report Reviewer, please visit
www.icfe.info.
Paul Richard, RFC
Executive Director
Institute of Consumer Financial Education
PO Box 34070
San Diego, CA 92163
619-239-1401
Email Reply: icfe@cox.net
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About the ICFE:
About the
ICFE:
The Institute of Consumer Financial Education (ICFE), founded in 1982 by the
late Loren Dunton (creator of the “certified financial planner” (CFP)
designation) and it is dedicated to helping consumers of all ages to improve
their spending, increase savings and use credit more wisely. The ICFE trains and
certifies Personal Finance Instructors for its own curriculum. It also trains
and certifies Credit Report Reviewers and Identity Theft Prevention Specialists.
The ICFE is an award winning, nonprofit, consumer education organization that
has helped millions of people through its education programs and resources. It
publishes the Do-It-Yourself Credit File correction Guide, now in its 16th
printing and has distributed over one million “Credit/Debit Card Warning Labels”
and “Credit/Debit Card Sleeves” world wide.
The ICFE became an official partner with the Department of Defense/Financial
Readiness Campaign in June of 2004.
The ICFE is also a partner in the national Jump$tart Coalition for Financial
Literacy and the California Jump$tart chapter. The ICFE staff is also active
with San Diego Saves, an offshoot of America Saves, and the California Student
Debt Resource Awareness Project (CASDRAP) (studentdebthelp.org).
The ICFE’s on-line help for consumers who spend too much was featured in PARADE
Magazine in the Intelligence Report section. The money helps and tips are from
“The Money Instruction Book,” a course in personal finance, positioned to become
among the premier programs in the new bankruptcy and debtor education
initiatives.
The ICFE Web site at:
http://www.icfe.info helps consumers with mending spending, learning about
the proper use of credit, budget and expense guidelines, how to set up and
implement a spending-plan and also how to access financial education courses and
videos and how to teach children about money. Other ICFE services include a free
eNewsletter, and an online resource center of financial education learning
tools, including videos, books, software and personal finance courses.
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