Financial wellness
Empower Retirement Resources
ARTICLES & WORKSHEETS
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To contact an onsite representative, please call717-531-1878or emailPSH_Retirement@pennstatehealth.psu.edu(in your message, please provide the best number or email address to reply).
Counselors can help you with investment selection, retirement planning, and emergency savings.
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Call Empower for any questions at
1-866-986-9477. The hours of operation extend between Monday – Friday from 8:00am–10:00pm.
Financial
Wellness Checklist
- Start with the basics: Create a budget, build an emergency fund, payoff debt.
- Short-term financial goals: What can you afford to place in your 401k? What can you set aside for financial emergencies?
- Long-term financial goals: What do you want to set aside for your retirement? Do you know how much retirement income you will need?
Start with the basics
The first fundamental step of financial wellness is organizing and understanding your everyday finances, then finding the pathway that works for you to create a sustainable budget.
- Create a budget – Start by tracking your finances for 30 days. This means every dollar spent and every purchase made. You may be spending more than you realize on eating out, coffee, subscriptions you may or may not use and gym memberships.
- Pay down debt – If you are paying minimum payments on credit card balances, you may be paying lots of money in interest.
- Build an emergency fund
- Understand your credit score
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After you have a solid monthly budget and begin an emergency savings account, it is time to move to the next level of financial wellness. Setting short-term goals are for things that you want to accomplish in the next 2 to 5 years. Some examples include saving for a wedding, buying a house, and buying a car.
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These types of goals are usually related to anything that may happen 10-30 years from your decision point. They might include college savings, retirement savings, etc. A great deal of planning is the framework of these types of goals.
Study where your financial health is
at the moment then look for ways to work on changing the gaps that you see. By doing this, you’ll develop control over your budget, as well as future goals towards living a happier and healthier life.
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