Get financially fit at FREE financial planning workshops and individual counseling sessions with experts on credit, housing, mortgages, Medicaid, retirement, saving for college and more. Financial Empowerment Day 2015 is Friday, Oct. 23rd, at the New York Public Library’s Business Library, in the SIBL branch on 34th Street and Madison Avenue.
Financial Empowerment Day identifies financial issues that all of us New Yorkers are concerned about. Those financial issues include investing, retirement, saving for college, wills and health directives and more, to help New Yorkers of any age get smarter about our finances and improve our financial future.
Workshops and classes are taught by financial experts from the Office of Financial Empowerment, the SEC, Financial Planning Association of New York and other financial agencies. Click here for the workshop schedule.
Workshops begin at 10am and there are opportunities to meet one-on-one throughout the day with financial consultants, who can address personal issues, such as reducing credit card debt, buying a home, or managing finances following job loss, retirement, or unemployment.
Note: There is no advance registration.
Also on hand will be experts from the following financial and legal organizations New York City and New York State government agencies: