Financial Wellbeing

 

Employee Articles

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How to Use FlexEarn Responsibly: A Guide to Maximizing Benefits

FlexEarn is a financial tool designed to provide employees with access to their earned wages before payday. This service can be incredibly beneficial for managing cash flow and addressing unexpected expenses. However, to truly reap the benefits without compromising your financial well-being, it's important to use FlexEarn responsibly. Here’s a guide to help you navigate this tool effectively

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7 Simple Budgeting Tips to Make Your Money Go Further

If you're feeling the pinch from rising prices, don't worry - there are easy ways to manage your finances without sacrificing too much. Here are seven tips that you can start implementing today to make your money go further.

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Unlock Your Earnings: How Earned Wage Access Can Improve Your Financial Wellbeing

Earned wage access (EWA) is a financial wellness program that allows employees to access a portion of their earned wages before their scheduled paydays.

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Running Out of Money

6 ways to deal with the mid-month financial panic (and 3 ways to make sure it doesn’t happen again)

It’s mid-month. You’ve just checked your balance and it doesn’t look good. Maybe you’ve had one too many nights out. Maybe those new clothes that seemed such a bargain weren’t such a bargain after all. And perhaps that fantastic holiday was a bit more than you could really afford.

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The New Overdraft Charges: What You Need to Know

OK, so you’re getting better at stretching out your salary to the end of the month. You really are. And if there’s that cool shirt to buy or extra few nights out to enjoy, well, you just dip into your overdraft. It’s an arranged one, after all. You’re not like those dozy mates of yours who go wild with unauthorised overdrafts and end up paying fat fees.

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HR Articles

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Improving Financial Wellbeing

During these unprecedented times, the work of an HR professional is extra important. You want to keep supporting your staff, but which is the way forward? Employees are feeling pressure from so many directions. Sources of worry could be anything from health issues, financial struggles, remote working problems, anxieties about older relations, or all of these. We’ve highlighted some effective strategies that focus on managing one common stressor in the workplace: financial stress.

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Tools & Calculators

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Budget Planner

Use this to help plan your incomings and outgoings. Takes 5 minutes to complete.

 

60 Second Debt Test

5 simple questions to tell you if you need debt advice

 

Credit Card Calculator

This calculator lets you see how much a credit card will cost, or how quickly you can pay off your existing cards.

 

Debt Advice Locator

This tool helps find advice to deal with your debt situation.

 

Money Navigator

Action plans for when you don’t know where to start.