Firsthand Perspectives Exploring the Mental-Financial Health Connection
In this study, we examine the experiences of people managing both financial stress and mental health challenges, uncovering their needs and ways to help.
Measurement for Systems Change: Lessons From the Financial Health Pulse®
Financial Health Pulse research has helped shape a new era of financial health solutions. What can it teach us about using data to drive systems change?
Understanding the Mental-Financial Health Connection
For the first time, we explore what's known about the deep relationship between financial and mental health challenges – and what’s left to uncover.
Credit Building in the Digital Age
Innovations in fintech are creating new opportunities – and posing new risks – for consumers with invisible, unscorable, or subprime credit.
Overdraft Trends Amid Historic Policy Shifts
Overdraft and non-sufficient funds (NSF) fees remain a reality in America’s modern banking system, but the landscape is rapidly evolving. This FinHealth Spend Product Spotlight sheds light on the state of overdraft today, the consumers who use it, and potential implications for financial institutions and policymakers.
The Benefits Cliff Dilemma: Navigating Wage Increases and Public Benefits
Interviews with home care workers reveal how even well-intentioned raises can lead to benefits cliffs that cause workers to lose out on public benefits – putting them in a worse financial position overall.
Supporting Returning Citizens’ Financial Health
Drawing on insights from recent pilot projects, this brief discusses ways in which stakeholders across sectors can empower people coming out of prison to access identification and financial services.
Workplace Financial Health Innovation: Exploring the Spectrum of Financial Guidance Solutions for Your Employees
Employees across industries are managing a wide range of financial health needs, and they are increasingly looking to their employer for support. As employers consider which financial guidance benefits to offer, they must consider a range of factors – including the makeup of their workforce, how the guidance is delivered, and cost structures – in order to identify the most high-impact solutions for their employees.
How Digital Communities Can Drive Financial Decision-making and Customer Satisfaction
In collaboration with legal empowerment fintech Upsolve, we explore how incorporating a digital community into fintech tools can support user financial decision-making and improve customer satisfaction.
Workplace Financial Health Innovation: Rolling Out Credit- and Debt-Related Benefits for Your Employees
As many employees struggle with unmanageable debt, employers can make a difference by providing credit- and debt-related financial wellness solutions. Here are fiscal, legal, and regulatory considerations for businesses to keep in mind as they develop offerings to help employees manage debt, build credit, and improve their financial health.
Building Consumer Savings with Fintech Innovations
Savings are a critical component of financial health, and new approaches can encourage consumer savings.
Using Data and Design To Increase Equity in Employee Financial Health
Data-driven understanding of employees’ needs can inform design and delivery of benefits programs that increase equity in employee financial health.