Financial Health Impact Lab: Innovation Highlights
Developing and testing innovative solutions is key to advancing financial health. That’s the driving force behind the Financial Health Impact Lab – a program that supports the groundbreaking work of organizations at the forefront of financial health measurement, like those profiled here.
Financial Health Solutions: Increasing Savings with a Choice at Onboarding
How can employers encourage workers to build their savings? Even, an employer-based earned-wage access platform, partnered with the Financial Health Leaders Lab to test the impact of presenting savings as an active choice during onboarding to its app.
Financial Health Solutions: Boost Savings with Challenges and Empowering Messages
How can competitions influence more people to build their savings? SaverLife, a nonprofit focused on helping working families to save and invest in their futures, partnered with the Financial Health Leaders Lab to test several approaches.
Member Press Kit
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Pandemic influencing employer health benefit planning: Financial Health Network
The Financial Health Network, the nation’s authority on financial health, this week released the “Knowing Better, Doing Better: Building an Effective Financial Health Benefits Strategy” report in partnership with Morgan Stanley at Work, showing 86 per cent say they are aware of their employees’ financial health challenges, with 85 per cent of companies planning to maintain or increase […]
Election-Driven Payday Loan Caps Spotlight On-Demand Wage Technology
Amid the pandemic, a ceiling on payday loans extends … state by state. Read the Article >>
How Financial Stress Can Impact the Workforce
Financial stress usually impacts financial health. It matters as financial stress can be devastating for individuals and employers, writes Matt Bahl, vice president, and head of workplace, Financial Health Network. Read the Article >>
Workplace and Healthcare Leaders Join the Financial Health Network
We’re excited to welcome two experts to the team that will drive workplace and healthcare financial health strategies forward: Matt Bahl and Adrienne White-Faines.
Have banks, fintechs compete to bring banking services to post offices
Banking services have long been offered national post offices in other countries, making basic account, savings and payment services widely available to populations who might not otherwise have access to them. Read the Article >>
Why Undocumented Workers Deserve to Be Included in the Social Safety Net
Lack of access to the social safety net has consistently hindered pathways to financial health for undocumented immigrants. Expanding eligibility for benefits to undocumented immigrants, during the pandemic and beyond, would increase financial stability for their families and most likely bolster the economy as a whole.
Balancing Today, Building Tomorrow: How Financially Coping Americans Plan, Save, and Invest
Even before COVID-19, millions of Americans were struggling financially, with more than half the population classified as Financially Coping. As job losses mount, savings are spent down, household debt grows, and investments shrink during the pandemic, Americans need financial support more than ever. This new research sheds light on how providers can support the saving and investing behaviors of Financially Coping consumers, ultimately improving both their immediate and long-term financial health.
Speaking Out Against Racial Discrimination
The Financial Health Network shares the grief and anger of Americans everywhere as we struggle to process the recent and senseless deaths of black people as well as the ensuing public demands for accountability. We unequivocally condemn any and all forms of racism and discrimination, and we recognize the pain and trauma being inflicted on […]