The FDIC is celebrating our 75th anniversary in numerous ways, including the publishing of "Money Tips for All Ages," this special edition of FDIC Consumer News.

FDIC Consumer News provides practical guidance on how to become a smarter, safer user of financial services. Each issue offers helpful hints, quick tips, and common-sense strategies to protect and stretch your hard-earned dollars.

For Any Age or Stage
Practical Advice for Everyone on How to Save and Manage Money

For Teens
How to Ace Your First Test Managing Real Money in the Real World

For Young Adults
What to Know Before Declaring Your Financial Independence

For Newlyweds
Starting a Household on Solid Ground Financially

At Midlife
Multi-Tasking In Your 30s, 40s or 50s

For Parents
Teaching Children the Financial Facts of Life

Before You Retire
Getting Your Finances Ready for Your Golden Years

After You Retire
Managing Your Expenses on a Fixed or Reduced Income

For Financial Caregivers
Helping Disabled or Elderly Relatives With Money Management, Even From Far Away

For Major Life Events
Ways to Cope Financially During and After a Big Change

Visit Money Tips for All Ages: Your Finances at Different Stages of Life Download Page

You can read Money Tips for All Ages online, or download full publication in PDF format.

FDIC Consumer News, Spring 2008 – Special Edition: Money Tips for All Ages

Ideas for…
Any Age or Stage
Teens
Young Adults
Newlyweds
People at Midlife
Teaching Our Kids
Before You Retire
After You Retire
Financial Caregivers
Coping After Changes

Download Money Tips for All Ages: Your Finances at Different Stages of Life

PDF format, 9.6MB, 16Pages.

For More Help or Information on Managing Your Money

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has staff and other resources that can answer questions about deposit insurance and banking and can help resolve questions or complaints involving an individual institution.

Start at www.fdic.gov/quicklinks/consumers.html or call toll-free 1-877-ASK-FDIC (1-877-275-3342). FDIC publications, including our quarterly FDIC Consumer News and articles referred to in this special guide, are available at that same Web site and telephone number (select the option for "FDIC publications").

You can also e-mail us using the Customer Assistance Form at www2.fdic.gov/starsmail or send a letter to the FDIC, Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection, 550 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20429-9990.

Other federal regulators of financial institutions publish consumer information and have staff, Web sites and other resources that can help answer questions on financial matters. Start at www.mymoney.gov, the federal government's central Web site about managing your money. It is a service of the interagency Financial Literacy and Education Commission, of which the FDIC is a partner.

Other federal, state and local government agencies publish consumer information, offer financial education classes and help answer questions on money matters.

For more help from the U.S. government, start at www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Money_Taxes.shtml or call toll-free 1-800-FEDINFO (1-800-333-4636). Also check out the financial information and programs offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in partnership with the Cooperative Extension System (go to www.csrees.usda.gov/financialsecurity). One of Cooperative Extension's projects is an interactive Web site featuring answers to more than 1,100 frequently asked questions on personal finance and the opportunity to "ask an expert" from a university (www.extension.org/personal+finance).

You can also find additional information at your state or local government's Web site or by calling a consumer affairs office listed in the government pages of your phone book.

Financial institutions, consumer organizations and the news media publish personal finance tips you can find by searching the Internet.

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